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Complement Clauses in Portuguese: Syntax and acquisitionEdited by Ana Lúcia Santos and Anabela Gonçalves
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 17] 2018
► pp. 213–240
Subjunctive and subject obviation in Portuguese
Rui Marques | University of Lisbon
Subject obviation refers to the impossibility of the subject of an embedded clause to be co-referent with the main clause’s subject. This is verified in complementation structures of some predicates that select the subjunctive, but not in those of other predicates. A semantic explanation is proposed, based on Giannakidou’s concept of veridicality, for why only some of the predicates that select the subjunctive mood trigger obviation.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Obviation and tense dependency
- 3.Obviation and the quasi-imperative operator – Kempchinsky’s proposal
- 4.Subjunctive and non veridicality
- 5.Subjunctive, agentivity and obviation
- 5.1Predicates of volition
- 5.2Directive and causative predicates
- 6.Conclusion
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Published online: 16 August 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.17.07mar
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.17.07mar
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