Que lindo o que vocês fizeram! - Brazilian Portuguese wh-exclamatives and the evidence for a split force

Authors

  • Paulo Medeiros Junior Departamento de Linguística, Português e Línguas Clássicas da Universidade de Brasília
  • Pedro Luiz Moraes Sieiro Departamento de Linguística, Português e Línguas Clássicas da Universidade de Brasília

Keywords:

Wh-sentential exclamatives. Brazilian Portuguese. Split Force. Cartography.

Abstract

Portuguese exhibits a great variety of wh-exclamative sentences, including sentential exclamatives, which are the main concern of this paper. Brazilian Portuguese sentential wh-exclamatives seem to provide evidence to propose a split Force in the periphery of the sentence (RIZZI, 1997) when one considers the cooccurrence of a relative and an exclamative in the same utterance. We assume there are at least two functional heads available in Force: a RelP (hosting relative WHs) and an ExclP, supposed to host exclamative WHs; analyzed data also show that exclamation must be higher than relativization in a Split Force projection, with some more place above ExclP for topicalizing other syntactic objects.

Published

2021-02-08

How to Cite

Medeiros Junior, P., & Sieiro, P. L. M. (2021). Que lindo o que vocês fizeram! - Brazilian Portuguese wh-exclamatives and the evidence for a split force. DELTA: Documentação E Estudos Em Linguística Teórica E Aplicada, 36(1). Retrieved from https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/delta/article/view/52306

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