Double realization of verbal copies in European Portuguese emphatic affirmation
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Ana Maria Martins
Abstract
This chapter discusses European Portuguese sentences where a finite verb occurs twice. Such sentences express emphatic affirmation and are either elliptic structures produced as replies to a yes/no question presupposing a negative answer or full declaratives which contradict a preceding negative statement. The approach to European Portuguese emphatic verb reduplication developed in this chapter views the two phonologically indistinguishable verb forms as copies of the same item from the numeration, i.e. as two links of a nontrivial chain. Martins' analysis relies on Nunes's (2001, 2004) idea that the phonetic realization of multiple links of a chain is permitted as far as linearization – understood as the application of Kayne's (1994) Linear Correspondence Axiom (LCA) – can still operate. In particular, multiple copies may be allowed when morphological reanalysis makes some copy invisible to the LCA. In the case of emphatic affirmation in European Portuguese, it is argued that verb reduplication results from the combination of verb movement to Σ[+aff] and (subsequent) verb movement to C[+emph], followed by morphological reanalysis of C, which renders the adjoined verb copy invisible to the LCA and immune to deletion.
Abstract
This chapter discusses European Portuguese sentences where a finite verb occurs twice. Such sentences express emphatic affirmation and are either elliptic structures produced as replies to a yes/no question presupposing a negative answer or full declaratives which contradict a preceding negative statement. The approach to European Portuguese emphatic verb reduplication developed in this chapter views the two phonologically indistinguishable verb forms as copies of the same item from the numeration, i.e. as two links of a nontrivial chain. Martins' analysis relies on Nunes's (2001, 2004) idea that the phonetic realization of multiple links of a chain is permitted as far as linearization – understood as the application of Kayne's (1994) Linear Correspondence Axiom (LCA) – can still operate. In particular, multiple copies may be allowed when morphological reanalysis makes some copy invisible to the LCA. In the case of emphatic affirmation in European Portuguese, it is argued that verb reduplication results from the combination of verb movement to Σ[+aff] and (subsequent) verb movement to C[+emph], followed by morphological reanalysis of C, which renders the adjoined verb copy invisible to the LCA and immune to deletion.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- From trace theory to copy theory 1
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Part I. The copy theory of movement on the PF-side
- The copy theory of movement 13
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Part II. On multiple realization of copies
- Double realization of verbal copies in European Portuguese emphatic affirmation 77
- On fusion and multiple copy spell-out 119
- Verb copying in Mandarin Chinese 151
- Dutch 's-prolepsis as a copying phenomenon 175
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Part III. On lower copy realization
- Free word order and copy theory of movement 219
- Variable pronunciation sites and types of wh -in-situ 249
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Part IV. Further issues
- Cyclic chain reduction 291
- Agreement with (the internal structure of) copies of movement 327
- Pronouns in a Minimalist Setting 351
- Index 387
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- From trace theory to copy theory 1
-
Part I. The copy theory of movement on the PF-side
- The copy theory of movement 13
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Part II. On multiple realization of copies
- Double realization of verbal copies in European Portuguese emphatic affirmation 77
- On fusion and multiple copy spell-out 119
- Verb copying in Mandarin Chinese 151
- Dutch 's-prolepsis as a copying phenomenon 175
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Part III. On lower copy realization
- Free word order and copy theory of movement 219
- Variable pronunciation sites and types of wh -in-situ 249
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Part IV. Further issues
- Cyclic chain reduction 291
- Agreement with (the internal structure of) copies of movement 327
- Pronouns in a Minimalist Setting 351
- Index 387
