The syntax of relative clauses in European Portuguese : extending the determiner hypothesis of relativizers to relative que
- 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.
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| Author: | Esther Rinke, Elisabeth Aßmann |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-442626 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5334/jpl.172 |
| ISSN: | 2397-5563 |
| ISSN: | 1645-4537 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of Portuguese linguistics |
| Publisher: | Ubiquity Press |
| Place of publication: | London |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2017/06/12 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2017/04/04 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2017/06/12 |
| Tag: | DP-structure; European Portuguese; demonstratives; determiners; relative clauses |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Issue: | Art. 4 |
| Page Number: | 26 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 26 |
| Note: | 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/. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 423733176 |
| Institutes: | Neuere Philologien / Neuere Philologien |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 49 Andere Sprachen / 490 Andere Sprachen |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
