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Three arguments for a treatment of -vel as a dynamic modal Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Bruna Elisa da Costa Moreira
In thisshort paper I argue that the suffix -vel ‘-ble’ in dispositionaladjectives (such as quebrável ‘breakable’, adorável ‘adorable’, durável‘durable’) behaves like a dynamic modal, and I offer three arguments in supportof this view. First, I show that it is particularly difficult to capture thequantificational force of the suffix, and consequently of the derived adjective,in the same way that it
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A Functional Discourse Grammar account of proper names in Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Monielly Serafim
A generally accepted view regarding proper names is that they have reference, but no lexical meaning (Lyons, 1977). This idea is the basis for the Functional Discourse Grammar (Hengeveld & Mackenzie, 2008) view of proper names as primitives of the Interpersonal Level and the lexical head of Subacts of Reference. At the Representational Level, the entity is designated by an absent head, which captures
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On causatives – A comparison between European Portuguese and Mandarin Chinese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jiaojiao Yao
Based on the caused eventuality, causation can be subdivided into causation of an activity and causation of change of state. By analyzing how causatives are expressed in European Portuguese and Mandarin Chinese, this study shows that these two languages exhibit quite a lot of differences in expressing causation of change of state. We have observed that quite many Portuguese verbs which intrinsically
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Nasal epenthesis in preverbal accusative clitic pronouns. A variationist study of present-day dialectal European Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-01-25 Mikołaj Nkollo
The paper investigates nasal epenthesis in vowel-initial preverbal 3rd person accusative pronouns in modern dialectal European Portuguese (EP). The study is underpinned by the data retrieved from the 'verbatim transcription' section of CORDIAL-SIN, a dialectal corpus of contemporary EP. Speakers' individual attitudes towards onset insertion are analyzed in the fifteen localities where variation is
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Portuguese infinitives: their pieces and their meaning Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Maurício Sartori Resende,Roberta Pires de Oliveira
Traditionally taken as one of the nominals forms of the verb, infinitives in Portuguese, in spite of their morphophonological homogeneity (-r), appear in a range of morphosyntactic contexts. This paper argues that all these contexts can be reduced to three, namely, a nominal, a verbal and a “mixed” – in the sense of Chomsky (1970). Specifically, by assuming Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz,
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How missionaries applied Portuguese and Latin descriptive categories in the classification and explanation of verb conjugations and paired verbs of Tamil Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Cristina Muru
Tamil verb stems may be inclusive of a voice morpheme that encodes the degree of agency of the verb. Hence, using Paramasivam’s (1979) terminology, these kinds of verbs are paired verbs of which one is the affective and the other its effective counterpart. In the former, the action expressed by the verb is realised by an agent and affects a patient, whereas in the latter the consequences of the action
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Durational aspects of tautosyllabic vowel nasalization in (Brazilian) Portuguese: An airflow investigation Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-05-11 Rui Rothe-Neves
This study investigates coarticulatory effects caused by the following consonant – either a stop or a fricative – on the duration of the oral and the nasalized portion of the nasal vowel and the nasal murmur in sequences within Portuguese words like tensa [ˈtẽsɐ] ‘tense’ versus tenta [ˈtẽtɐ] ‘(s/he) tries.’ The results replicate previous observations that duration adjustments affect the vowel’s nasalized
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Lexical and semantic variation in contemporary spoken Portuguese in urban Funchal and rural areas of Madeira Island Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-04-20 Naidea Nunes Nunes
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Sound symbolism in Brazilian Portuguese Pokémon names: Evidence for cross-linguistic similarities and differences Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-02-11 Mahayana C. Godoy,André Lucas Gomes,Gakuji Kumagai,Shigeto Kawahara
Several studies in linguistics and related disciplines have been extensively exploring sound symbolism, systematic associations between sounds and meanings. Against this theoretical development, research on Pokemon names has shed new light on cross-linguistic similarities and differences in sound symbolic patterns, using similar experimental stimuli across different target languages. A recent experimental
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Prosodization of prepositional clitics and prosodic words in Brazilian Portuguese: Investigation of phonetic cues Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Lilian Maria da Silva,Luciani Ester Tenani
In this paper, syllable duration (Vowel-to-Vowel unit) and F0 variation are analyzed as cues to distinguish the prosodization of prepositional clitic-host sequence from a syllable within a prosodic word in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). A production task was created to assess 1) whether the syllable production time helps to identify a clitic boundary and a word boundary and 2) whether the F0 configuration
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Some long-standing issues in Portuguese phonology revisited in the laboratory Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Eleonora Albano,Didier Demolin
This editorial to the Special Collection Laboratory Approaches to Portuguese Phonology aims at contextualizing the articles against the background of a two-century old scholarly tradition in the study of the Portuguese sound pattern. As foreseen in the Call for Papers, all the submissions received used laboratory methods to address long-standing issues raised by this tradition. Regardless of their
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From grammar to dictionary. The early challenge of lemmatizing Tamil verbal forms, through categories used for Latin and Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Jean-Luc Chevillard
This contribution,1 based on an examination of several Tamil dictionaries and Tamil grammars, composed in Portuguese and in Latin, by missionaries who were in Tamil Nadu during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, examines the lemmatization strategies which they followed, while dealing with Tamil verbal morphology. If nominal forms were not really a problem, verbal forms were more difficult to cope with
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Detecting word-level stress in continuous speech: A case study of Brazilian Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Simone Harmath-de Lemos
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Gradient and categorical assimilation of pretonic vowels in Brazilian Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Magnun Rochel Madruga,Silke Hamann,Maria Bernadete Marques Abaurre
This paper addresses the acoustic realisations of the pretonic vowels /e, o/ that have been previously reported to undergo regressive vowel harmony in Brazilian Portuguese. It examines how the height of pretonic /e, o/ is affected by the phonological and phonetic height of the adjacent stressed vowel in three dialects: Northeastern (Bahia), Northern (Amazonas) and Southern (Rio Grande do Sul). A pseudoword
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Constraints on multiple dependencies in the left-periphery in European Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Pilar Barbosa,Maria do Carmo Lourenço-Gomes,Sílvia Araújo,Cecília Castro,Emilia Athayde
This paper focuses on intervention effects obtained by embedding a topic constituent (either a displaced topic or a clitic left-dislocated topic) within the domain of wh-movement. We present the results of two acceptability judgment tests carried out in European Portuguese (EP), which indicate that only a subset of the constructions in which a topic intervenes in the path of wh-movement is judged acceptable
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Aspectual information of durativity/punctuality impacts the countability of deverbal nouns in Brazilian Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Suzi Lima, Adriana Leitão Martins
This paper explores the countability of deverbal bare singular nouns in Brazilian Portuguese, such as chute ‘kick’ in Maria deu mais chute ‘Maria did more kicking/Maria did more kicks’. More specifically, it investigates whether the aspectual information of a verb impacts the count (cardinal interpretation) or mass (volume/intensity interpretation) interpretation of a bare singular noun. Based on the
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Eyes or mouth? Exploring eye gaze patterns and their relation with early stress perception in European Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-04-30 Marisa Cruz, Joseph Butler, Cátia Severino, Marisa Filipe, Sónia Frota
Previous research has shown that eye gaze patterns relate to language development, with more attention to the mouth signaling ongoing acquisition. We examined infants’ eye gaze in a stress perception experiment, in which European Portuguese (EP) learning infants showed a preference for the iambic stress pattern. Specifically, we asked whether there was a relation between eye gaze patterns and the preferred
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Kalunga in the lusophone context: A phylogenetic study Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-03-23 Ana Paulla Braga Mattos, Márcia Santos Duarte Oliveira
Kalunga is a variety of Afro-Portuguese spoken in a rural community located in the state of Goias, Brazil. In this study, we compare Kalunga with other varieties of Portuguese spoken in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, and Portugal and Portuguese-based creoles from a contact linguistics perspective. We investigate typological similarities, differences, and possible connections between these varieties. The
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Epistemic Future and epistemic modal verbs in Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Rui Marques
This paper discusses the semantics of two epistemic operators in Portuguese: the epistemic Future and modal verbs. The idea sustained in the literature for other languages that the epistemic Future has the same semantics as the modal verb (equivalent to) MUST does not account for the Portuguese data. The proposal is made that, though epistemic Future and epistemic modal verbs are devices to convey
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sC-clusters in Brazilian Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Thaïs Cristófaro Silva,Matheus Freitas
This paper discusses word-initial (sibilant + consonant) sequences that may or may not be preceded by a vowel in Brazilian Portuguese, as, for example, in escola [isˈkɔlə] ~ [ˈskɔlə] ‘school’ or Skype [isˈkajpi] ~ [ˈskajpi]. They will be referred to as sC-clusters. The vowel-zero alternation in word-initial sC-clusters is an optional phenomenon in BP, which affects native and loan words at different
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Abbreviations in eighteenth-century letters: Graphic clues and literacy degrees Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Vivian Seixas,Sueli Coelho
This research object was the use of abbreviations in 18th century private letters written in Portuguese. In this context, the main hypothesis was that such resources may highlight the social aspects of the scribe of past periods, thus allowing their sociolinguistic characterization. To test it, we adopted the Language Variation and Change Theory (Labov, 1972) regarding the data selection, collection
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Relationship between speech production and perception in children with Speech Sound Disorders Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Larissa Cristina Berti,Jhulya Guilherme,Cássio Esperandino,Aline Mara de Oliveira
Larissa Cristina Berti1, Jhulya Guilherme2, Cássio Esperandino2 and Aline Mara de Oliveira3 1 Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, São Paulo State University, Universidade Estadual Paulista, BR 2 Programa de Pós-Graduação em Fonoaudiologia, São Paulo State University, Universidade Estadual Paulista, BR 3 Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Santa Catarina Federal University
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Perceptual Compensation of Vowel Nasality in Brazilian Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Luciana Marques, Rebecca Scarborough
This study explores the nature of the oral-nasal vowel contrast in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). While vowel nasality is a salient property in the language, scholars differ on whether this property forms the basis of a phonological contrast. The presence of a consonant-like nasal resonance at the right edge of the heavily nasalized vowels (i.e., nasal appendix) leads to an analysis that nasal vowels may
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Dialectal Variation in European Portuguese Central Vowel Perception Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Valerie Horn, Esther Rinke, Cristina Flores
The present paper aims at providing empirical evidence for dialectal variation concerning the perception of the central vowel [ɐ] in European Portuguese (EP). More concretely, this study compares the perception of the contrast between [a] and [ɐ] by native speakers of two varieties of EP: 23 speakers of a northern Portuguese dialect (from the city of Braga) and 23 speakers of the Littoral Center variety
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Cognitive biases on the social perception of the allophonic variation of coda /S/ in Brazilian Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Ana Paula Correa da Silva Biasibetti
The allophonic variation of coda /S/ in the Florianopolitan variety of Brazilian Portuguese shows explicit associations between [ʃ] and the local stereotype of native resident – one who was raised in Florianopolis whose parents were also raised in the area. We hypothesize that the aforementioned explicit association is an implicit association, that is, an unconscious and automatic one. We argue that
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Listening to accented speech in Brazilian Portuguese: On the role of fricative voicing and vowel duration in the identification of /s/ – /z/ minimal pairs produced by speakers of L1 Spanish Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Ubiratã Kickhöfel Alves, Luciene Bassols Brisolara
This article reports the results of two experiments investigating the combined role of vowel length and length of fricative voicing in the identification, by Brazilians, of minimal pairs such as casa /z/ – caca /s/ produced by speakers of Spanish (L1). In Experiment 1, stimuli were manipulated so that length of voicing in the fricative was tested in two levels (100% or 0% of voicing) and vowel length
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Acquiring the distribution of null and overt direct objects in European Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Cristina Flores, Esther Rinke, Aldona Sopata
This article investigates the L1 acquisition of different types of direct objects in European Portuguese (EP). Previous research has revealed that although children have early syntactic and pragmatic knowledge of objects across languages, the adequate use of pronouns and null objects is protracted in the acquisition of EP (Costa et al. 2012). The present study shows that children acquiring the distribution
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Molsing, K. V.; Lopes Perna, C. B. & Tramunt Ibaños, A. M. (eds) (2020). Linguistic Approaches to Portuguese as an Additional Language. Amsterdam. John Benjamins Publishing Company Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
This edited volume responds to recent calls to go beyond research focusing on English and adds to increasing academic literature focusing instead on Portuguese as target language in Applied Language Studies. Such developments go hand in hand with growing attention paid to the development of students’ plurilingual repertoires and the acknowledgment that those repertoires are multi-layered, dynamic,
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A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Word-Final /s/ Aspiration in a Rio de Janeiro Favela Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-10-21 Edvan P. Brito
Following the theoretical and methodological principles of Variationist Sociolinguistics, this paper analyzes the use of the aspirated variant of postvocalic /s/ by residents of City of God, a predominantly-black neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro that is widely known as a favela (roughly, shantytown or slum). The analyzed data consist of seventeen sociolinguistic interviews conducted in 2015 with twenty-two
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The Pesky Ablative: Early European Missionaries’ Treatment of Tamil ‘Ablatives’ Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Gregory James
In their efforts to create accessible pedagogical grammars of Tamil, early missionaries applied the reference model of Latin and Portuguese grammars and other missioners’ works to the nominal and verbal paradigms they constructed of the language. In so doing, they met with difficulties in formulating the terminology to express the phenomena they encountered. For example, the early missionary grammarians
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Contributions of Cunha Rivara (1809–1879) to the Development of Konkani Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Gonçalo Fernandes
Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara (1809–1879) was a Portuguese physician, professor of philosophy, politician, librarian and secretary of the governor-general of India (1855–1870). During his job in Goa, he gave a strong impulse to the development of Konkani, a provincial language of Goa. On 28 November 1857, he was appointed by the governor-general to lead a commission established to coordinate, prepare
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Remarks on Finite Control and Hyper-Raising in Brazilian Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Jairo Nunes
In this reply I examine Modesto’s (2011) claim that null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) are not controlled and are not derived by movement. I show that the critique has a considerable number of misconceptions, misunderstandings and misrepresentations that prevent a proper evaluation of movement approaches to null subjects in BP. When the relevant points are rectified, we see that the technical
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A Design Proposal of an Online Corpus-Driven Dictionary of Portuguese for University Students Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Tanara Zingano Kuhn
The objective of this PhD project was to propose the design of an online corpus-driven dictionary of Portuguese for university students (DOPU), aimed at both speakers of Portuguese as a mother tongue and as an additional language and covering Brazilian and European Portuguese varieties. For that, the highly innovative semi-automated approach to dictionary-making (Gantar, Kosem and Krek 2016) was adopted
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On (the) sandhi between the Sanskrit and the Modern Western Grammatical Traditions: From Colebrooke to Bloomfield via Müller Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Giovanni Ciotti
This article traces the history of how modern Western linguistics adopted the term sandhi from the Sanskrit grammatical tradition and adapted it to its theoretical needs. In particular, we will acknowledge the fundamental role played by Muller, 1 who combining both Indic (Prakriyā grammars and Prātiśākhyas) and Western approaches (those of Colebrooke and Bopp) to the representation of Sanskrit grammar
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The Acquisition Path of [w]-final Plurals in Brazilian Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-04-23 Michael Becker, Andrew Nevins, Filomena Sandalo, Érick Rizzato
The plural of Brazilian Portuguese [w]-final nouns includes an alternation with [j], but the change is partially blocked in monosyllables and following a tense vowel (Becker et al. 2017). In this paper, we present a nonce word study with 115 children ages 7–13 and 43 adults, all participants from the state of Sao Paulo, showing that blocking in monosyllables is acquired earlier than blocking by tense
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The Realization of Focus in Asturian Spanish Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-01-08 Covadonga Sánchez-Alvarado
Spanish was classified as a language that only exploits syntactic mechanisms to mark focus. Recent experimental studies, nonetheless, have shown that speakers of different dialects are also able to use prosody to different degrees. This study aims to provide further understanding on the role played by prosody in the realization of focus in Spanish by looking at Asturian Spanish, a dialect in contact
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Linguistic Variation and Change in the Portuguese of São Tomé Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Marie-Eve Bouchard
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Review of Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12. Selected Papers from the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Campinas, Brazil, edited by Ruth E. V. Lopes, Juanito Ornelas de Avelar and Sonia M. L. Cyrino (2017). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Anabela Gonçalves
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Early Descriptors and Descriptions of South Asian Languages from the 16th Century Onwards Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Cristina Muru
An introduction to the special collection “Early Descriptors and Descriptions of South Asian Languages from the 16th Century Onwards” that develops the main ideas on which the contributions in this special edition of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics focus. The Introduction is not only a premise to the individual papers included in the volume and which are presented in the last paragraph. Emphasising
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Review of Intonation in Romance, by Sónia Frota and Pilar Prieto (Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Sam Hellmuth
The edited volume, Intonation in Romance, comprises eleven chapters: nine content chapters summarise the results of detailed prosodic analysis of intonation patterns across varieties of a particular Romance language, and are framed by an introduction and conclusion by the editors. The languages treated include those whose intonation systems have received much attention (Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese
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When Grammar Meets Pragmatics: Subject Preference and Coherence Relations in Brazilian Portuguese Pronoun Interpretation Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Mahayana C. Godoy, Janaina Weissheimer, Matheus Araújo Mafra
Although pronominal reference is a common device in language, there is much debate about how we use contextual and structural cues to process pronouns. The main goal of the present study was to set a completion experiment following Rohde’s (2008) work to test how pragmatic and grammatical cues interact during pronoun interpretation. Our motivation was to use Brazilian Portuguese as the target language
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Subject Pronoun Expression in Santomean Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Marie-Eve Bouchard
Studies on Subject Pronoun Expression (SPE) in the Portuguese-speaking world have shown a distinction between European Portuguese, which is a Null Subject Language (NSL) with high rates of null subjects, and Brazilian Portuguese, which is controversially treated as a partial-NSL and exhibits a considerably lower rate of null subjects. No specific studies have been conducted on the matter on Santomean
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Review of The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin America, by Mary A. Kato and Francisco Ordóñez (Eds.). New York: Oxford University Press Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-10-12 Aroldo Leal de Andrade
This volume, part of the series Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax, contains fourteen chapters, in addition to a foreword by the editors. It is devoted to the formal analysis of different aspects of American varieties of Portuguese and Spanish, while presenting their innovations with respect to their European counterparts. The papers collected have been presented at a meeting of the Romania Nova
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Front rounded vowels in Azorean Portuguese: A reappraisal Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-07-18 Philipp Krämer
The first part of this article investigates the distribution and emergence of front rounded vowels (FRV) in the Portuguese dialect spoken on the Azorean island of Sao Miguel in light of data taken from the Ethnolinguistic Atlas of the Azores (ALEAc). The analysis confirms previous findings about the distribution of FRV. Additionally, the ALEAc shows that this phenomenon spreads beyond the well-known
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The Syntax of Relative Clauses in European Portuguese. Extending the Determiner Hypothesis of Relativizers to Relative que Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-04-04 Esther Rinke, Elisabeth Aßmann
This paper discusses the syntax of relative clauses in European Portuguese (EP) by focussing on the status of the relativizer que in restrictive and appositive relative clauses. We propose a unified account of que in terms of a D-element and discuss the syntactic implications of this assumption for an adequate analysis of relative clauses in EP. We assume that relative que has properties of demonstrative
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An Optimality–theoretic Account of the Evolution of Intervocalic Sonorants from Latin to Spanish and Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-04-04 Lamar A. Graham
From Latin to Spanish and Portuguese, the natural class of sonorant consonants – laterals, rhotics, and nasals – often underwent drastic phonological changes. It is noteworthy that the tendency toward dissimilation, in accordance with Dispersion Theory (Flemming 1996; 1997; 2006), effected opposite changes in intervocalic /l/ and /n/. Portuguese favored geminate simplification and singleton lenition
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Deletion of Reflexive Clitics with the Verb Custar in European Portuguese: An MTC Account Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-02-16 Ana Maria Martins, Jairo Nunes
The impersonal verb custar (lit. ‘cost’) in European Portuguese selects for a dative experiencer argument and an infinitival clause, which may be preceded by the preposition a . Interestingly, a reflexive clitic co-referential with the experiencer argument can be deleted (under conditions to be specified) if it is within the prepositional infinitival complement, but not within its prepositionless counterpart
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Review of New perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-02-15 Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
This volume is the fifth in John Benjamins’ series Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. It contains 10 original contributions, in addition to an introduction by the editors. This volume is the first collection of papers devoted to Spanish copulas ser and estar using the tools and frameworks of contemporary theoretical linguistics.
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The Acquisition of Tonic and Pre-Tonic Vowels in Brazilian Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Graziela Pigatto Bohn
This study presents the acquisition of the tonic and pre-tonic vowels in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) by three children aged from 1;0 to 3;5, assuming the Contrastive Hierarchy Theory (CHT) (Dresher 2003, 2009). We address three issues regarding acquisition within the CHT: variability, phonological processes and restructuring. Results indicate that children may take different paths in acquiring segmental
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Consequential Constructions in Contemporary European Portuguese: A Contribution Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-11-25 Ana Cristina Macário Lopes
The aim of this study is to provide an integrated description of consequential constructions in European contemporary Portuguese, relating their syntactic, semantic and pragmatic behavior. It will be argued that the discourse segment introduced by the connectives consequentemente , de forma que , dai (que) , de modo que , por isso , assim can be analyzed in terms of a supplement (Huddleston & Pullum
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Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Modal Adjectives Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-07-25 Bruna Elisa da Costa Moreira
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Subclasses of Temporal and Spatial Phrases in Portuguese – Location vs. Mere Reference Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-01-12 Telmo Móia
This paper deals with the diversity of temporal and spatial phrases – mainly those headed by prepositions or preposition-like connectives – that convey locating information or involve mere temporal/spatial reference. It shows that the different subclasses are quite heterogene ous in Portuguese, and exhibit interesting, syntactically complex, patterns. A certain degree of instability in their use, likely
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Review of Portuguese-Spanish interfaces: Diachrony, synchrony, and contact Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-01-12 José I. Hualde
This volume, the first to be published in John Benjamins’ new series Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics , contains 17 original contributions, in addition to an introduction by the editors. What makes this volume unique within the extensive existing scholarship on Spanish and Portuguese linguistics is that all chapters are concerned with both languages in some way, be it in contrast or in
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Review of Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2011. Selected Papers from ‘Going Romance’ Utrecht 2011 Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-01-12 Madalena Colaço
The present volume contains a selection of twelve peer-reviewed papers presented at Going Romance in 2011. Celebrating its 25 th edition, the conference took place on December 8-10, in Utrecht, Holland, where the event was first held in 1986. While keeping the focus on the formal study of the Romance languages, the articles represent a wide range of topics related to different research areas, such
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The Grammaticalization of Modal Verbs in Brazilian Portuguese: A Synchronic Approach Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-01-12 Marize M. Dall’Aglio Hattnher, Kees Hengeveld
This paper analyzes the grammaticalization of modal verbs in Brazilian Portuguese from a synchronic perspective. It takes as its point of departure the hypothesis that grammaticalization is a process in which linguistic elements widen their scope. Since this process is gradual and involves one step at a time, the synchronic correlate of this hypothesis is that if a modal verb has multiple meanings
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The Sociolinguistic Evolution of a Sound Change Journal of Portuguese Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-01-12 Rosa-Maria Castañeda
This study focuses on the analysis of linguistic and extralinguistic factors influencing the phonological variation of vowel nasalization in the speech of bilingual speakers of Uruguayan Portuguese (UP). The setting is the city of Rivera located along the Uruguayan-Brazilian borderline. The data were collected in participant-observation and sociolinguistic interviews with fifty-four local UP speakers