Construções-wh  no português brasileiro: “gêmeos“ (doublets) sintáticos  ou variação estilística

Mary Aizawa Kato

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Mary Aizawa Kato UNICAMP

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Wh-questions, Brazilian Portuguese, Syntactic “doublets”, Optionality, Diachrony, Wh-movement, Clefting

Abstract

This chapter contains my overview of diachronic and synchronic studies on Brazilian Portuguese wh-questions, and discusses the intriguing problem of apparent syntactic doublets, or optionality, in this domain. However, a careful examination of the diachronic order in which these patterns appear, and the variation exhibited in contemporary written and spoken corpora lead us to conclude that the co-occurring patterns do not constitute syntactic “doublets.”

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Wh-constructions in Brazilian Portuguese: syntactic ‘doublets’ or stylistic variation

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