Guess what? Clefts are what we are silencing here
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 l...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Revista Linguística |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rl/article/view/5466 |