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Title: WH-extractions and relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese
Keywords: WH-Extractions
Relative Clauses
Predication
Issue Date: 30-May-2013
Publisher: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - PUC-SP
Description: 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.
URI: http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/5262
Other Identifiers: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502000000300006
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=01024450&date=2000&volume=16&issue=spe&spage=141
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