Guess what? Clefts are what we are silencing here

Autores

  • Cilene Rodrigues PUC/RJ - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2016.v12n2a5466

Resumo

In this paper, I present new evidence that in Brazilian Portuguese sluiced TPs with preposition deletion are cases of pseudosluicing, involving a clefting plus TP-deletion strategy, as suggested by Rodrigues et al. (2009). First, preposition deletion is allowed only in contexts in which clefts are licensed. Second, preposition deletion (i.e. pseudosluicing) has semantic consequences not observed in regular sluicing.

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Publicado

2016-12-31