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  • Relativas clivadas em variedades não padrão do português
    Publication . Cardoso, Adriana; Alexandre, Nélia
    European Portuguese is the only Romance language displaying an é que-cleft structure, i.e. a strategy in which the focused constituent is fronted followed by é que ‘is that’. The analysis of data from the corpus CORDIAL-SIN shows that some non-standard varieties of European Portuguese exhibit a kind of mixed relative clause strategy that combines relativization with é que-clefting, typed here as cleft relative clauses. Assuming a head-raising analysis of relative clauses, we take é que in cleft relatives to be not a lexicalization of Cº but a copula verb that selects a small clause whose subject is empty and whose predicate is a full clause (more precisely, a CP introduced by que). It is from this CP domain that the antecedent of the relative clause is extracted.