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Maria Isabel Dias Henriques
This paper deals with predicate inversion, more precisely with qualitative sentences and with the predication within the Noun Phrase.
This study had the following aims: i) compare Portuguese and English studies about this topic; ii) determine if the predication is important within the NP (Dikken, 1998); iii) choose the best syntactic representation; iv) compare with partitive expressions and analyse semantic values; v) prove that the left position within the NP is not exclusive of quantifiers, adjectives (Brito, 1003: 369).; vi) compare these expressions with copulative sentences. After analysing several sentences, we reached the following conclusions: i) these expressions are a case of predication within the NP, since they predicate the noun; ii) they obey the rules of the inversion of predicates; therefore, we cannot separate N1 and N2, they are a part of a whole; iii) they have a pragmatic value and purpose.
