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Articles • DELTA 36 (1) • 2020 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-460X2020360108   copy

Que lindo o que vocês fizeram! - Brazilian Portuguese wh-exclamatives and the evidence for a split force1 1 We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for the precious comments and suggestions on this paper, and we also thank the comments by the audience of the 3rd. EISSI, held in Santa Catarina in the winter of 2018. Of course, we take all responsibility for what´s being attested here.

Que lindo o que vocês fizeram! - Exclamativas-wh sentenciais do português brasileiro e a evidência para um núcleo força cindido

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ABSTRACT

Portuguese exhibits a great variety of wh-exclamative sentences, including sentential exclamatives, which are the main concern of this paper. Brazilian Portuguese sentential wh-exclamatives seem to provide evidence to propose a split Force in the periphery of the sentence (RIZZI, 1997RIZZI, L. 1997. The Fine-Structure of the Left Periphery. In: Haegeman, L. (ed.). Elements of Grammar. Kluwer, Berkeley. p. 281-337. ) when one considers the cooccurrence of a relative and an exclamative in the same utterance. We assume there are at least two functional heads available in Force: a RelP (hosting relative WHs) and an ExclP, supposed to host exclamative WHs; analyzed data also show that exclamation must be higher than relativization in a Split Force projection, with some more place above ExclP for topicalizing other syntactic objects.

Keywords:
Wh-sentential exclamatives; Brazilian Portuguese; Split Force; Cartography

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