Simple Emphasis in the Structure of Linear Syntactic Contrasts in the Portuguese Language
In the formation of linear contrasts on the level of rheme statements emphatic constructions play a very important role. Emphasis is the highest way of thinking about the strength of subject signified in the utterance. We have studied a simple emphatic construction that strengthens a positive moment of statements within the linear syntactic contrasts on the example of the Portuguese constructions eis; oxald, tomara and qual... nem qual.