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Rhetorical Exclamative in Spanish

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Degree
Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese, .
Abstract
Although standard exclamatives have been studied for the last thirty years, (as far as I know) rhetorical exclamatives have not been studied at all in any language, (as far as I know).The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the systematic internal characterization of rhetorical exclamatives in Spanish, from a syntactic, semantic and pragmatic point of view.I compare the sentence class of rhetorical exclamatives to (with) standard exclamatives and to (with) rhetorical questions. I focus on the most representative members of the rhetorical-exclamative class, namely those introduced by gradable adjectival or adverbial phrases.
Subject Headings
Linguistics
Keywords
pragmatics; semantics; syntax
Committee / Advisors
Javier Gutierrez-Rexach, PhD (Advisor)
John Grinstead, PhD (Committee Member)
Fernando Martinez-Gil, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
243p.

Document number: osu1315414519
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