'Exclamative' and 'quotative' illocutionary complementisers in Catalan, European Portuguese and Spanish: a study in Ibero-Romance syntactic 'near-synonmy'

Alice Corr

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'Exclamative' and 'quotative' illocutionary complementisers in Catalan, European Portuguese and Spanish: a study in Ibero-Romance syntactic 'near-synonmy'

Alice Corr

Modern Languages

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Abstract

The use of the Ibero-Romance complementiser que in non-embedded contexts with various illocutionary functions is argued to be non-trivially distinct from its canonical function as a marker of subordination. Interpretative and grammatical differences, as well as variation in the availability and clause-typing of non-embedded ‘exclamative’ and ‘quotative’ illocutionary QUE across Catalan, European Portuguese and Spanish provide evidence that the subordinating complementiser has been repurposed for the representation of pragmatic information in the complementiser systems of Ibero-Romance, a hypothesis supported by analogies drawn between illocutionary QUE and illocutionary functions of the interrogative complementiser si/se in Catalan and European Portuguese.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	69-98
Number of pages	30
Journal	Languages in contrast
Volume	18
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.00004.cor
Publication status	Published - 22 Feb 2018

Keywords

Peninsular Ibero-Romance
illocutionary complementisers
syntax-pragmatics interface
main clause phenomena
Catalan
Peninsular Spanish
/European Portuguese
Linguistics
syntax
Romance languages
Romance linguistics

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