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Wh-Exclamatives, Imperatives and Wh-questions : Issues on Brazilian Portuguese.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guesser, Simone.
- Series:
- Linguistica Latinoamericana Series
- Linguistica Latinoamericana Series ; v.6
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (470 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023.
- Summary:
- Created in cooperation with the Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL), the series LINGUISTICA LATINOAMERICANA publishes original research works on the linguistic realities of any Latin-American comunity as well as theoretical contributions to any subdiscipline or theoretical school elaborated by Latin American research communities.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Wh-Exclamatives
- Exclamatives: An overview
- On the role of IP-related functional categories in the derivation of wh-exclamatives
- "What a great paper!": A semantic analysis of wh-exclamatives with predicates of personal taste
- Copular exclamatives and gender agreement
- The perception of wh-exclamatives, free small clauses, and wh-questions in Brazilian Portuguese
- Part II: Imperatives
- Imperative clauses
- The verbal imperative in Brazilian capitals: An analysis of data from the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil Project
- Past imperatives
- Imperative sentences and their subjects
- Part III: Wh-questions
- A framework for the study of Romance wh-questions, with special reference to Italo-Romance
- Using semantic inferences to distinguish between free relative and embedded questions: An analysis of ambiguous embedded clauses
- The left-peripheral syntax of Brazilian Portuguese cadê
- Aspects of the development of wh-questions in child Brazilian Portuguese
- Wh-questions, intervention effects and beyond: An assessment of Brazilian Portuguese-speaking schoolchildren's linguistic abilities
- Subject index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9783111183176
- 3111183173
- OCLC:
- 1414458029
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