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Degree

Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese, 2011.

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
Permalink: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1315414519

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