É que-clefts in the light of syntactic cartography

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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2024.v20n2a63733

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Clefts are sentences used to focus syntactic elements through A-bar movement and focusing items, such as the copula and the complementizer que. Brazilian Portuguese (BP) has canonical clefts, which have the linear sequence “cópula+foco+que+IP”. However, the literature mentions the existence of the so-called “inverted clefts”, which present the focus in the initial position. Based on the Cartographic Program, which conceives syntactic elements as complex and hierarchically organized objects, we will propose an analysis for these constructions, which we will call “Clivadas-é que”, since we will not consider it an inverted version of the canonical clefts, but an independent structure, being that the copula and the complementizer appear as functional items.
Keywords: Clefts. Cartography. Left periphery.

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Damaris Matias Silveira, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)

Professora do Departamento de Língua e Literatura Estrangeiras da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (DLLE-UFSC). Graduada em Letras - Português e em Letras - Alemão pela mesma universidade. Mestre em Linguística pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) e doutora em Linguística pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Coordena o projeto "A cartografia das estruturas da língua alemã", bem como investiga as contribuições dos estudos em Gramática Gerativa para o ensino de alemão. É coordenadora da área de alemão do Núcleo Institucional de Língua e Tradução, da Secretaria de Relações Internacionais da UFSC (NILT/SINTER). Também realiza pesquisa em Teoria e Análise Linguística, com ênfase na cartografia das estruturas focalizadoras do português e do alemão.

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2024-08-21

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Vol. 20 No. 2 (2024): Brazilian Portuguese in scientific production in Brazil and Italy

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