Complements of verbs of utterance and thought in Brazilian Portuguese narratives

Complements of verbs of utterance and thought in Brazilian Portuguese narratives

This paper focuses on reported speech in Brazilian Portuguese oral narratives, examining the status of direct and indirect quotations. In particular, I address the following questions: Can the clause that carries the quotation be analyzed as an objet complement of the verb of saying and thought? Wha...

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Main Author: Maria Angélica Furtado da Cunha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2012-12-01
Series:Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
Online Access:http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/82
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spelling doaj-f6ebb51bf7564977aa6c68829f8356202021-09-02T02:15:13ZengOpen Library of HumanitiesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics1645-45372397-55632012-12-0111233410.5334/jpl.8281Complements of verbs of utterance and thought in Brazilian Portuguese narrativesMaria Angélica Furtado da Cunha0Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte – BrasilThis paper focuses on reported speech in Brazilian Portuguese oral narratives, examining the status of direct and indirect quotations. In particular, I address the following questions: Can the clause that carries the quotation be analyzed as an objet complement of the verb of saying and thought? What syntactic, semantic, and prosodic properties of utterance/thought verbs support such treatment? The analysis shows that utterance verbs strongly project what is to come, so that the quote can accurately be taken as the object complement of the matrix verb. The paper also argues for a scalar treatment of complementation in terms of syntactic integration with the utterance verb.http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/82
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Complements of verbs of utterance and thought in Brazilian Portuguese narratives
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title Complements of verbs of utterance and thought in Brazilian Portuguese narratives
title_short Complements of verbs of utterance and thought in Brazilian Portuguese narratives
title_full Complements of verbs of utterance and thought in Brazilian Portuguese narratives
title_fullStr Complements of verbs of utterance and thought in Brazilian Portuguese narratives
title_full_unstemmed Complements of verbs of utterance and thought in Brazilian Portuguese narratives
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publisher Open Library of Humanities
series Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
issn 1645-4537
2397-5563
publishDate 2012-12-01
description This paper focuses on reported speech in Brazilian Portuguese oral narratives, examining the status of direct and indirect quotations. In particular, I address the following questions: Can the clause that carries the quotation be analyzed as an objet complement of the verb of saying and thought? What syntactic, semantic, and prosodic properties of utterance/thought verbs support such treatment? The analysis shows that utterance verbs strongly project what is to come, so that the quote can accurately be taken as the object complement of the matrix verb. The paper also argues for a scalar treatment of complementation in terms of syntactic integration with the utterance verb.
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