TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rinke, Esther
A1  - Aßmann, Elisabeth
T1  - The syntax of relative clauses in European Portuguese : extending the determiner hypothesis of relativizers to relative que
T2  - Journal of Portuguese linguistics
N2  - This paper discusses the syntax of relative clauses in European Portuguese (EP) by focussing on the status of the relativizer que in restrictive and appositive relative clauses. We propose a unified account of que in terms of a D-element and discuss the syntactic implications of this assumption for an adequate analysis of relative clauses in EP. We assume that relative que has properties of demonstrative and interrogative determiners. In restrictive object and subject relative clauses, que occurs as a transitive determiner [DP que [NP e]], which selects for a nominal complement, whereas in prepositional and appositive relative clauses, [DP que] is an intransitive determiner parallel to an e-type pronoun. We discuss the position of restrictive relative clauses in the DP containing the modified noun, and propose that they are merged pre-nominally, in the same fashion as demonstratives.
KW  - European Portuguese
KW  - relative clauses
KW  - determiners
KW  - demonstratives
KW  - DP-structure
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/44262
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-442626
SN  - 2397-5563
SN  - 1645-4537
N1  - Copyright: © 2017 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
VL  - 16
IS  - Art. 4
SP  - 1
EP  - 26
PB  - Ubiquity Press
CY  - London
ER  -