Exclamativas e interrogativas com ‘ques’ em português brasileiro dialetal

Authors

  • Bruna Karla Pereira Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e MucurI

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5752/P.2358-3428.2020v24n51p514-538

Keywords:

Ques, CP, Movimento-wh, DP, NumP

Abstract

This paper examines exclamatives and interrogatives containing the wh-determiner ‘ques’ in dialectal Brazilian Portuguese. As opposed to standard BP, in these structures, ‘que’ is the only constituent of the DP marked with the plural morpheme. In order to explain these facts, I will propose an analysis that accounts for the CP/DP-internal hierarchy as well as the DP-internal distribution of the plural morpheme. As for the syntactic derivation, I assumed, following current proposals, that ‘ques’ is a determiner, and therefore it is a D-head. With regards to interrogative sentences, the DP to which ‘que’ belongs undergoes wh-movement, from the VP-internal argument position, to the CP-domain. With regards to exclamative sentences, the DP moves, from the predicate position of a small clause, to the CP-domain. In both cases, the movement is driven by illocutionary force. As for the distribution of the plural morpheme, the cardinal numeral divides the DP into two domains, such that the phrases on its left are marked with plural, whereas the phrases on its right are unmarked. As a result, because ‘ques’ is the only item higher than the numeral in these structures, it is the only one marked with the plural morpheme. To conclude, this paper carries out an analysis that accounts for: firstly, the clausal structure (CP) to which the DP containing ‘ques’ belongs; secondly, the DP-internal hierarchy; and finally, the DP-internal distribution of the plural morpheme.

Keywords: ‘Ques’. CP. Wh-movement. DP. NumP.

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Author Biography

Bruna Karla Pereira, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e MucurI

Atualmente vinculada ao MIT como visiting scholar

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Published

2020-09-23

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PEREIRA, Bruna Karla. Exclamativas e interrogativas com ‘ques’ em português brasileiro dialetal. Scripta, Belo Horizonte, v. 24, n. 51, p. 514–538, 2020. DOI: 10.5752/P.2358-3428.2020v24n51p514-538. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/scripta/article/view/23027. Acesso em: 10 sep. 2025.

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 51 (2020): Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality

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Livre

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