FREE AND DEPEDENT SMALL CLAUSES IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

Autores/as

  • Mary Aizawa Kato Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Palabras clave:

small clauses, word order, adjectives, copula

Resumen

This paper examines free small clauses, which, unlike dependent small clauses, exhibit peculiar properties: (a) they are restricted to occur with individual level and event adjectives, (b) they have to appear with the subject postposed. After considering several hypotheses on the nature of this inversion, it is proposed that these adjectives are of the ergative type, while the stage level adjectives are unergatives. Small clauses with ergative adjectives can be complements of a third copula distinct from the attributive ‘ser’ and the stative ‘estar’, which underlies cleft constructions. The derivation of free small clauses is parallel to canonical cleft sentences.

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Publicado

2016-11-24

Cómo citar

Kato, M. A. (2016). FREE AND DEPEDENT SMALL CLAUSES IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE. DELTA: Documentação E Estudos Em Linguística Teórica E Aplicada, 23(3). Recuperado a partir de https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/delta/article/view/30507