Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Wh-Exclamatives
5. Exclamatives: An overview 23
6. On the role of IP-related functional categories in the derivation of wh-exclamatives 53
7. “What a great paper!”: A semantic analysis of wh-exclamatives with predicates of personal taste 85
8. Copular exclamatives and gender agreement 117
9. The perception of wh-exclamatives, free small clauses, and wh-questions in Brazilian Portuguese 143
10. Part II: Imperatives
11. Imperative clauses 173
12. The verbal imperative in Brazilian capitals: An analysis of data from the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil Project 227
13. Past imperatives 255
14. Imperative sentences and their subjects 283
15. Part III: Wh-questions
16. A framework for the study of Romance wh-questions, with special reference to Italo-Romance 315
17. Using semantic inferences to distinguish between free relative and embedded questions: An analysis of ambiguous embedded clauses 359
18. The left-peripheral syntax of Brazilian Portuguese cadê 387
19. Aspects of the development of wh-questions in child Brazilian Portuguese 409
20. Wh-questions, intervention effects and beyond: An assessment of Brazilian Portuguese-speaking schoolchildren’s linguistic abilities 441
21. Subject index 461