WH-EXTRACTIONS AND RELATIVE CLAUSES IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

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  • Esmeralda Vailati Negrão Universidade de São Paulo

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WH-Extractions, Relative Clauses, Predication.

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This paper aims to describe and explain WH-extraction patterns out of island contexts in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), by means of the principles established by Generative Theory. I claim that BP uses a strategy for the extraction of subjects which involves a special case of Agreement. Extractions out of relative islands are possible when the extracted WH-phrase ends up in the specifier position of the higher CP and from there it behaves as the subject of the predication. The subject-predicate relationship established under agreement makes Comp a proper governor for traces in subject position under its scope. The analysis proposed makes a distinction between two processes of relative clause formation. One in which que is an operator that transforms sentences into predicates and sits in the Comp position of a CP whose specifier can be occupied by a QP functioning as the subject of the predication. The other, in which que is a WH-word, traditionally treated as a pronoun, occupying the specifier position of a QP and introducing relative clauses as we know them.

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2018-11-01

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Negrão, E. V. (2018). WH-EXTRACTIONS AND RELATIVE CLAUSES IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE. DELTA: Documentação E Estudos Em Linguística Teórica E Aplicada, 16(3). Recuperado de https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/delta/article/view/39891

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