Free and depedent small clauses in Brazilian Portuguese
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3880913 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Aizawa Kato (0000-0003-1593-2065, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | spe |
| Pages | 85-111 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | DELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0102-4450 • E-ISSN: 1678-460X |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/s0102-44502007000300007 |
| OpenAlex | W2088300998 |
| SciELO | S0102-44502007000300007 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
This paper examines free small clauses, which, unlike dependent small clauses, exhibit peculiar properties: (a) they are restricted to occur with individual level and event adjectives, (b) they have to appear with the subject postposed. After considering several hypotheses on the nature of this inversion, it is proposed that these adjectives are of the ergative type, while the stage level adjectives are unergatives. Small clauses with ergative adjectives can be complements of a third copula distinct from the attributive 'ser' and the stative 'estar', which underlies cleft constructions. The derivation of free small clauses is parallel to canonical cleft sentences
Attributive · Biology · Combinatorics · Copula (linguistics) · Dependent clause · Ergative case · Inversion (geology) · Linguistics · Nominative case · Sentence · Verb · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2022 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |