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Capeverdean reflexives: the importance of a silent Voice
| dc.contributor.author | Pratas, Fernanda | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-25T16:02:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-05-25T16:02:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In Capeverdean, a Portuguese-based Creole language, many reflexive contexts do not show any overt reflexive expression. This is the case of transitive verbs like bisti ‘dress’ in simple clauses: Ana bisti ‘Ana has dressed herself’. This is a perplexing fact, given that there is an anaphor of the SELF-type available in the language: (si) kabesa — literally ‘his/her head’ —, meaning ‘himself/ herself’, which participates in reflexive clauses with other verbs. The current paper explores this puzzle, ending with a proposal supported empirically and also by recent studies for other languages. This novel analysis goes as follows: all Capeverdean finite sentences, except unaccusatives, have a Voice head, responsible for assigning external theta-roles. This also includes middles, passives and this type of reflexives. It is this Voice head that, in spite of being silent, attracts the internal argument to a preverbal position and provides the interpretation for an implicit external argument, which is syntactically active. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | Pratas, Fernanda. 2014. Capeverdean reflexives: the importance of a silent Voice. Estudos de Linguística Galega 6: 233-250. http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/elg.6.1776 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/elg.6.1776 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1889-2566 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1989-578X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10451/33666 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | pt_PT |
| dc.relation | Post Scriptum: A Digital Archive of Ordinary Writings (Early Modern Portugal and Spain) | |
| dc.subject | Capeverdean | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Reflexives | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Passive constructions | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Voice projection | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Implicit arguments | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Capeverdean reflexives: the importance of a silent Voice | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.awardTitle | Post Scriptum: A Digital Archive of Ordinary Writings (Early Modern Portugal and Spain) | |
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| oaire.awardURI | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/295562/EU | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Santiago de Compostela | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 250 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 233 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Estudos de Linguistica Galega | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | 6 | pt_PT |
| oaire.fundingStream | 3599-PPCDT | |
| oaire.fundingStream | FP7 | |
| project.funder.identifier | http://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871 | |
| project.funder.identifier | http://doi.org/10.13039/501100008530 | |
| project.funder.name | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | |
| project.funder.name | European Commission | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
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