Ordem de palavras em exclamativas com demonstrativos em Português Europeu

Abstract

This paper focuses on the study of the syntactic position filled by the demonstrative determiner (este, esse, aquele) innominal wh- exclamative sentences in European Portuguese (EP) like Que menina esta!. We draw on works onSpanish and Catalan (Castroviejo Miró 2006 a,b; Alonso Cortés 1999) and develop a hypothesis capable ofexplaining why the demonstrative in EP can occupy such a position, which apparently is a post-nominal one. Wedefend the hypothesis that in this type of exclamative the post-nominal position of the demonstrative is the result ofan elliptical predicative clause. In order to understand the position of the demonstrative, we also analyse thestructures of wh-exclamatives, of predicative clauses and of degree phrases.