Many languages of the world feature wh-exclamatives, and some of them also exhibit that-
configurations that can be used as root clauses expressing an exclamatory speech act; the …

This paper addresses the nature of P-Chopping/Null-Preposition in the grammars of native
speakers (N= 30) and Chinese-speaking learners (N= 72) of European Portuguese. This …

This dissertation presents studies in the distribution of wh-elements in different languages
and across different constructions, with a focus on Romance and Germanic languages. The …

Relative clauses are subordinate clauses acting as nominal modifiers. They can be finite or
non-finite in Romance, with finite relative clauses largely more productive and widespread …

This paper addresses the restrictions of Italian relative che 'what'to finite environments and
direct case gaps. While the standard analysis takes these restrictions to follow from the C …

This paper investigates the formation of spatial locative relativization in three African
varieties of Portuguese. While research on relative constructions in Portuguese has …

In the present chapter we question the standard view that takes C (complementizer) to be a
primitive syntactic category. We argue instead that C is a cover term for a variety of lexical …

With this article, we aim at providing an answer to two main theoretical questions: what is the
syntactic derivation of European Portuguese P-chopping relative clauses? And what is the …

Portuguese (EP) relative clauses on the basis of a corpus study. From a more general
perspective, we aim at empirically confirming or disconfirming generalizations formulated on …