Eckhard Bick - VISL

(3a)
Onde [onde] ADV @ADV> 'where'
mora [morar] V PR 3S IND VFIN @FMV ‘[does he] live’
$?
With the exception of leading prepositions ('a mulher a quem amava'), clause initial
position is, of course, also the normal place for complementisers (not only adverbial
complementisers, but also pronouns and conjunctions), heading non-finite (3b1/2),
finite (3c/d) or averbal subclauses (AS). In the AS- and FS-case (3c/d), the
complementiser is obligatory, and any adverbial complemetiser will therefore - in my
system - also bear the clause function tag.
Apart from valency binding within the subclause, adverbial complementisers can
also help attach an FS to an "outside" (main clause) valency link, in the interrogative
case usually to a cognitive or speech-verb ('saber' in 3b1, 'perguntar' in 3c), or a
"cognitive noun" ('pergunta' in 3d), and in the relative case possibly to yet another
verb ('mora onde eu moro' - 'he/she lives where I live.'), by turning the FS concerned
into the right type of adverbial (in the example, locative).
Note, that heads for both adverbial arguments and interrogative subclause
arguments are marked for such valency, cp. ('morar' in 3a-d) and
('perguntar' in 3c) or ('pergunta' in 3d) 175 .
(3b1)
Não [não] ADV @ADVL> 'not'
sabe [saber] V PR 3S IND VFIN @FMV ‘[he] knows’
onde [onde] ADV @ADV> ‘where’
morar [morar] V INF 0/1/3S @IMV @#ICL-A ‘not’
tem [ter] V PR 3S IND VFIN @FMV ‘[he] has’
onde [onde] ADV @ADV> ‘where’
morar [morar] V INF 0/1/3S @IMV @#ICL- @#FS-