Small Clauses: origins and state of affairs
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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2017.v13n2a14040Abstract
This paper presents (part of) the debate on what has been called Small Clauses (SC), discussing its origins and state of the art. In a nutshell, they refer to a subset of constructions that express a tenseless subject-predicate relation. The proposals regarding the existence of SCs and their structural descriptions go along with the historical development of the Generative Program itself, raising important questions on grammar proposals and providing empirical findings. In this article, we present an historical background of some of those proposals that involve SCs and summarize some of their most prominent researchers, along with prototypical examples and Brazilian Portuguese data, when relevant.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2017.v13n2a14040
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