Relativas clivadas em variedades não padrão do português

• Autor(a) principal: Cardoso, Adriana
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Alexandre, Nélia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/8651
• topic: Cleft relatives; Relative clauses; Clefts; Non-standard varieties; Relativas clivadas; Orações relativas,; Clivadas,; Variedades não standard; Corpus cordial-sin

European Portuguese is the only Romance language displaying an é que-cleft structure, i.e. a strategy in which the focused constituent is fronted followed by é que ‘is that’. The analysis of data from the corpus CORDIAL-SIN shows that some non-standard varieties of European Portuguese exhibit a kind of mixed relative clause strategy that combines relativization with é que-clefting, typed here as cleft relative clauses. Assuming a head-raising analysis of relative clauses, we take é que in cleft relatives to be not a lexicalization of Cº but a copula verb that selects a small clause whose subject is empty and whose predicate is a full clause (more precisely, a CP introduced by que). It is from this CP domain that the antecedent of the relative clause is extracted.