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Research on left periphery phenomena has increased in the last 20
years, resulting in consistent studies from a wide range of
languages and a fruitful debate on the functional projections
within the CP system. Throughout these years, important
contributions have been made on Brazilian Portuguese, especially on
wh-interrogative sentences, focalization, topicalization and
relative clauses. As for exclamative and imperative sentences,
however, there is a considerable research gap in all grammatical
levels. Regarding interrogatives, semantic and prosodic studies are
still lacking (as well as research on the acquisition and
processing of these constructions). This collected volume fills
some of those gaps, gathering studies on wh-exclamatives,
imperatives and wh-questions in Brazilian Portuguese which approach
syntactical, semantical and prosodic aspects of these constructions
through a rich and unregistered set of data. They also deliver
novel acquisition and diachronic data that will further both the
comprehension of Brazilian Portuguese grammar and the ongoing
discussions on left periphery phenomena.
Current semantic fieldwork research has shown that the study of
modality cannot be conducted via translation alone, yet much of
what we know about modal expressions across the world's language is
still translation-based. This book aims to facilitate the study of
modality across more diverse languages and a wider participant base
by explaining and illustrating a nuanced set of methods, including
storyboards, questionnaires, corpora research, experimental tasks,
as well as a discussion of practical semantic fieldwork techniques.
The methodological protocols tested and employed by the authors on
underdescribed languages - spanning seven different language
families - are intended to be applicable as cross-linguistic tools,
while also indicating the successes and challenges of their
contributions. Expanding the study of modality to a wider set of
underdescribed languages will undoubtedly bring new insights into
our theoretical understanding of modality and deepen our
understanding of a cross-linguistic typology of modal expressions.
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