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Eckhard Bick - VISL

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(10e) é mais fácil<br />

que [que] KS @COM @#AS-KOMP< ‘than’<br />

a [a] DET F S @>N ‘-’<br />

gente [gente] N F S @SUBJ> ‘we’<br />

recomeçar [recomeçar] V INF 0/1/3S @IMV @#ICL-AS< ‘recommence’<br />

In the above, I have argued in favour of a third type of clause, neither finite nor nonfinite,<br />

averbal small clauses, and tried to define this category as predicator-less, but<br />

complementised elliptic clauses, retaining - as a kind of semantic clause trunc - either<br />

the predication or (in comparisons) some other focused clause constituent. Still,<br />

predicator ellipsis also occurs in clauses with neither predicatives nor comparison<br />

complementisers. Consider the following two uses of qual, one as a relative adverbial<br />

(11a), one as an interrogative determiner (11b):<br />

(11a) nada [nadar] V PR 3S IND VFIN @FMV ‘[he/she] swims’<br />

qual [qual] ADV @COM @#AS-N ‘a’<br />

peixe [peixe] N M S @AS< ‘fish’<br />

(11b) não [não] ADV @ADVL> ‘not’<br />

consigo [conseguir] V PR 1S IND VFIN @FAUX ‘[I] succeed’<br />

saber [saber] V INF 0/1/3S @IMV @#ICL-AUX< ‘get to know’<br />

qual [qual] DET M/F S @#FS-N ‘the’<br />

diferença [diferença] N F S @

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