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- Title
'Exclamative' and 'quotative' illocutionary complementisers in Catalan, European Portuguese and Spanish: A study in Ibero-Romance syntactic 'near-synonymy'.
- Authors
Corr, Alice
- Abstract
The use of the Ibero-Romance complementiser que in non-embedded contexts with various illocutionary functions is argued to be non-trivially distinct from its canonical function as a marker of subordination. Interpretative and grammatical differences, as well as variation in the availability and clause-typing of non-embedded 'exclamative' and 'quotative' illocutionary que across Catalan, European Portuguese and Spanish provide evidence that the subordinating complementiser has been repurposed for the representation of pragmatic information in the complementiser systems of Ibero-Romance, a hypothesis supported by analogies drawn between illocutionary que and illocutionary functions of the interrogative complementiser si/se in Catalan and European Portuguese.
- Subjects
EXCLAMATIONS (Grammar); QUOTATIVES (Grammar); COMPLEMENTIZERS (Grammar); CATALAN language; SPANISH language
- Publication
Languages in Contrast, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 1, p72
- ISSN
1387-6759
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/lic.00004.cor