Exclamative Clauses: At the Syntax-Semantics Interface  

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Zanuttini, Raffaella ; Portner, Paul

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 79 no. 1 (2003), page 39-81.
Fulltext: Vol. 79, No. 1, pp. 39-81.pdf (5.31MB)

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A central issue in the theory of clause types is whether force is represented in the syntax. Based on data from English, Italian, and Paduan, we examine this question focusing on a less well- studied clause type, exclamatives. We argue that there is no particular element in syntax responsible for introducing force. Rather, there are two fundamental syntactic components which identify a clause as exclamative, a factive and a wH-operator. These are crucial because they are responsible for two fundamental semantic properties characteristic of exclamatives, namely that they are factive and denote a set of alternative propositions. The force of exclamatives, which we character- ize as WIDENING, is derived indirectly, based on the semantic properties.*

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