1 Ana Maria Martins (University of Lisbon – FLUL/CLUL) Freie ...

(40) Contra esta ingratidão e injustiça se escreve este livro.
against this ingratitude and injustice SE write-3SG this book
(‘É contra esta ingratidão e injustiça que se escreve este livro’)
is against this ingratitude and injustice that SE write-3SG this book
‘This book was written to repair such ingratitude and injustice [against the Nobel Prize
Egas Moniz].’ (from the newspaper Expresso/Actual)
(Tests B – Clitic placement)
(41) a. {Deste estofo/ assim} se fazem os grandes homens.
of-this stuff / like-this SE make-3PL the great men
b. *{Deste estofo / assim} fazem-se os grandes homens.
of-this stuff / like-this make-3PL-SE the great men
‘This is how great men are forged.’ (from Said Ali 1966 [1908] / from Google)
(Tests D – Subject-verb inversion)
(42) a. Assim o olhou o pessoal do posto Shell.
like-that him looked the staff of-the station Shell (from a novel by J.
‘That’s how the staff of the Shell gas station looked at him.’ Cardoso Pires)
b. *Assim o pessoal do posto Shell o olhou.
like-that the staff of-the station Shell him looked
(Tests E – PP preposing)
(43) a. Nesta crise financeira que atravessamos reside o problema.
in-the crisis financial that face-1PL lies the problem
‘It’s in this financial crisis we are currently facing that the problem lies.’
b. *Nesta crise financeira que atravessamos, o problema reside.
in-this crisis financial that face-1PL the problem lies
(Test G – Relative clause extraposition)
(44) Poucas dessas crianças autistas conheci (ao longo da vida)
few of-those children autistic knew-1PL in-the course of-the life
que não estabelecem nenhum tipo de interacção.
that not establish-3PL any kind of interaction
‘During my life I came across few autistic children that would not establish any kind of
interaction.’
3.3. Deictic fronting is not Topicalization
One further argument against the idea that deictic fronting might be some kind of
Topicalization associated with a particular type of prosodic marking comes from data like
those in (45) to (48).
Sentences (45)-(46) show that in EP the subject can be contrastively focused in situ:
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