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Information Structure and AgreementEdited by Victoria Camacho-Taboada, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González and Mariano Reyes-Tejedor
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 197] 2013
► pp. 83–116
The alternation between improper indirect questions and DPs containing a restrictive relative
Gabriela Matos | Universidade de Lisboa
Ana Maria Brito | Universidade do Porto
This paper analyses the alternation between improper indirect questions and DPs containing a restrictive relative in European Portuguese. We propose that this alternation is lexically restricted, only occurring with weakly assertive cognitive definite predicates, in the sense of Hinzen and Sheehan (2011), such as saber, ‘to know’ or descobrir, ‘to discover’. We also claim that the alternation between an improper indirect wh-CP and a DP containing a restrictive relative is possible because they share significant features, namely they both involve sentences with declarative illocutionary force and wh/operator chains, and exhibit a high level of referentiality, due to the D-linked nature of the whP in the improper indirect question and the definite and specific nature of the DP that includes the relative. Keywords: improper indirect questions; restrictive relatives; weakly assertive cognitive definite predicates; European Portuguese; Spanish
Published online: 30 January 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.197.03mat
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.197.03mat
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