Pub Date : 2022-10-06DOI: 10.17851/2237-2083.30.4.1788-1830
Z. Teixeira, Humberto Borges
Abstract: This article examines the syntactic and semantic properties of locative adverbs in Brazilian Portuguese to verify whether they occupy the subject position. We observe that adverbs can occupy the subject position as well as locative NPs. We propose that, contrary to full DPs, adverbs do not bear the number feature inherently, manifesting only the person feature. Following Baker (2003), we propose that locative adverbs bear a referential index. The conclusion is that locative adverbs in subject position are generated as VP adverbs or locative arguments, bearing the following formal features: [+deictic] and [+ (3rd) person].Keywords: locative adverbs; position of the subject; Brazilian Portuguese.Resumo: Este artigo examina as propriedades sintáticas e semânticas dos advérbios locativos no português brasileiro para verificar se eles ocupam a posição de sujeito. Observamos que advérbios podem ocupar a posição de sujeito assim como NPs locativos. Propomos que, contrariamente aos DPs plenos, advérbios não carregam o traço de número inerentemente, manifestando somente o traço de pessoa. Seguindo Baker (2003), propomos que advérbios locativos possuem índice referencial. A conclusão é a de que esses advérbios na posição de sujeito são gerados como advérbio de VP ou argumento locativo, carregando os traços formais: [+dêitico] e [+ (3ª) pessoa].Palavras-chave: advérbios locativos; posição do sujeito; português brasileiro.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-06DOI: 10.17851/2237-2083.30.4.1688-1718
C. Prim, Thais Deschamps
: This case-study analyzes the syntax of adnominal adjectives in 17th-19th century European Portuguese diachronically. We utilize syntactically and morphologically annotated data from the Tycho Brahe Project’s Parsed Corpus of Historical Portuguese. A total of five letters and four narratives written by authors born between the 17th and 19th centuries were analyzed. They yielded 7,996 valid DPs after manual verification of the data. Our hypothesis was that the shift in the preferential position of evaluative adjectives (from anteposition to postposition) would be observed first in text genres closer to orality, such as letters, and that such shift has not taken place in the same way for definite and indefinite DPs. The results confirm that there is a difference in the behavior of adjectives when we look at different text genres and determiners. We also provide a qualitative analysis of two letters, one from the 17th century and another from the 19th century, in order to investigate the concomitant effect of determiner types, adjective types, and noun types. The results show a preference for the anteposition of evaluative adjectives with definite determiners and with names [+human], but a preference for postposition with indefinite determiners and names [+human], in both the 17th and 19th centuries. In addition, the use of non-evaluative adjectives increased from the 17th to the 19th century, disproportionately favoring postposition.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-06DOI: 10.17851/2237-2083.30.4.1659-1687
Nathalia Pereira de Souza-Martins, S. Gonçalves
: This work has as its main objective to examine, from the perspective of Functional Discourse Grammar (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008), which are the pragmatic, semantic and morphosyntactic motivations underlying the ordering of the constituents of the discontinuous Np in different synchronies of Brazilian Portuguese, in order to verify whether the synchronic characterization of the phenomenon has a diachronic basis and whether there are differences in the productivity of the phenomenon in speech and writing. The empirical analysis of the phenomenon is based on samples from different historical sources: (i) letters from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries from the Projeto Para a História do Português Brasileiro (PHPB) and from the Corpus Histórico do Português Tycho Brahe ; (ii) readers’ letters from the 21st century from the newspapers Folha de São Paulo and Diário do Norte ; and (iii) spoken language records from the 20th century, extracted from the minimum corpus of the NURC/ Brazil, and from the 21st century, taken from the Iboruna database ( Amostra Censo ). The methodology includes analysis parameters of interpersonal (rhetorical and pragmatic functions of the Np constituents), representational (type of semantic entity designated by the head noun and the semantic relationship between the head and the displaced constituent) and morphosyntactic nature (morphosyntactic configuration of the Np constituents and structural weight of the displaced constituent). Based on the analyses, the conclusion is that the discontinuity in the structuring of the Np has a stable behavior over time and it is motivated by factors of a more pragmatic order rather than morphosyntactic.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-06DOI: 10.17851/2237-2083.30.4.1964-2014
G. Martins, Luana Amaral
This work aims to analyze and aspectually classify the publishing verbs in English and Portuguese: to edit/editar or editorar, to copy edit/preparar, to proofread/ revisar, to typeset/diagramar and to format/formatar. These verbs present themselves as an interesting object of analysis in terms of the lexical aspect because they have characteristics of both accomplishments and activities. This type of dubious behavior has been extensively studied in the aspect literature and is usually attributed to VP properties. In the case of publishing verbs, however, the variability of the aspectual classification seems not to be strictly linked to the type of complement, but to the incrementality of the action described by the verb. Thus, for the analysis of these verbs, we adopt the two-dimensional model of representation of the lexical aspect, in a cognitive-functional approach, proposing that these verbs have aspectual properties that are at the intersection between accomplishments and activities. Our results indicate that the publishing verbs specify a type of directed change. Thus, they have the potential to be (re)construed as telic (accomplishments) or atelic (activities) directed changes, depending on how the speaker intends to describe the publishing event.
{"title":"Entre accomplishments e atividades: mudanças direcionais e o caso dos verbos de editoração/ Between accomplishments and activities: directed changes and the case of publishing verbs","authors":"G. Martins, Luana Amaral","doi":"10.17851/2237-2083.30.4.1964-2014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17851/2237-2083.30.4.1964-2014","url":null,"abstract":"This work aims to analyze and aspectually classify the publishing verbs in English and Portuguese: to edit/editar or editorar, to copy edit/preparar, to proofread/ revisar, to typeset/diagramar and to format/formatar. These verbs present themselves as an interesting object of analysis in terms of the lexical aspect because they have characteristics of both accomplishments and activities. This type of dubious behavior has been extensively studied in the aspect literature and is usually attributed to VP properties. In the case of publishing verbs, however, the variability of the aspectual classification seems not to be strictly linked to the type of complement, but to the incrementality of the action described by the verb. Thus, for the analysis of these verbs, we adopt the two-dimensional model of representation of the lexical aspect, in a cognitive-functional approach, proposing that these verbs have aspectual properties that are at the intersection between accomplishments and activities. Our results indicate that the publishing verbs specify a type of directed change. Thus, they have the potential to be (re)construed as telic (accomplishments) or atelic (activities) directed changes, depending on how the speaker intends to describe the publishing event.","PeriodicalId":42188,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudos da Linguagem","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44036020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-31DOI: 10.17851/2237-2083.30.3.1365-1396
V. P. Borges, C. Matzenauer
Abstrat: This study aimed at investigating morphological awareness of children who were either illiterate or going through their literacy process by applying a production task with agentive suffixes - or , - eiro , - ista . Morphological awareness is the ability to reflect on the smallest units of meaning in a language, the morphemes, intentionally applied to the structuring and recognition of words. The corpus was obtained through interviews with 16 children, 8 male and 8 female, divided into two groups: Group 1: preliterate children, aged between 4 and 5 years; Group 2: children in the process of literacy, aged between 6 and 7 years. The analysis focused on the manipulation of morphemes evidenced by replacing a morpheme with another with the same agentive value. Results showed gradual building of morphological awareness as children’s ages and contact with the literacy process increase, although it had already been present in the first age group that was part of the study. This fact is interpreted as the precocious presence of a level of morphological awareness at the age of 4, when children start to manipulate agentive suffixes and form words that do not follow the conventional structure of the language.
{"title":"Consciência morfológica: o emprego de sufixos agentivos por crianças não alfabetizadas e em processo de alfabetização / Morphological Awareness: the Use of Agentive Suffixes by Illiterate Children and Children in the Literacy Process","authors":"V. P. Borges, C. Matzenauer","doi":"10.17851/2237-2083.30.3.1365-1396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17851/2237-2083.30.3.1365-1396","url":null,"abstract":"Abstrat: This study aimed at investigating morphological awareness of children who were either illiterate or going through their literacy process by applying a production task with agentive suffixes - or , - eiro , - ista . Morphological awareness is the ability to reflect on the smallest units of meaning in a language, the morphemes, intentionally applied to the structuring and recognition of words. The corpus was obtained through interviews with 16 children, 8 male and 8 female, divided into two groups: Group 1: preliterate children, aged between 4 and 5 years; Group 2: children in the process of literacy, aged between 6 and 7 years. The analysis focused on the manipulation of morphemes evidenced by replacing a morpheme with another with the same agentive value. Results showed gradual building of morphological awareness as children’s ages and contact with the literacy process increase, although it had already been present in the first age group that was part of the study. This fact is interpreted as the precocious presence of a level of morphological awareness at the age of 4, when children start to manipulate agentive suffixes and form words that do not follow the conventional structure of the language.","PeriodicalId":42188,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudos da Linguagem","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44144419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-31DOI: 10.17851/2237-2083.30.3.1314-1338
Kyvia Fernanda Tenório da Silva, Susana Carvalho, Miguel Oliveira Júnior
: The aim of this article is to present a scope review on the identification of internal speech through surface electromyography and encephalography. A search was performed in the literature of the last five years (2015 to 2020), using descriptors in English and Portuguese, organized according to the following syntax: (“silent speech” OR “inner speech” OR “covert speech” OR “self-talk” OR “imaginary speech”) AND (electromyography OR electromyographies OR “surface electromyography” “electromyographies, surface” OR “electromyography, surface” OR “surface electromyographies” OR electromyogram OR electromyograms OR electroencephalography OR EEG OR electroencephalogram OR electroencephalograms), not including citations and patents in different databases. The concept of internal speech differed among the studies included in this review, but it was similar in terms of the absence of sound and articulatory movement. The purpose of the research that analyzed the biosignals of electroencephalography and/or surface electromyography in internal speech, comparing them or not with audible speech, was to develop systems that are controlled by the mental processing of the language.
{"title":"A identificação da fala interna por meio da eletromiografia de superfície e da encefalografia: uma revisão de escopo / The Identification of Internal Speech Through Surface Electromyography and Encephalography: a Scope Review","authors":"Kyvia Fernanda Tenório da Silva, Susana Carvalho, Miguel Oliveira Júnior","doi":"10.17851/2237-2083.30.3.1314-1338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17851/2237-2083.30.3.1314-1338","url":null,"abstract":": The aim of this article is to present a scope review on the identification of internal speech through surface electromyography and encephalography. A search was performed in the literature of the last five years (2015 to 2020), using descriptors in English and Portuguese, organized according to the following syntax: (“silent speech” OR “inner speech” OR “covert speech” OR “self-talk” OR “imaginary speech”) AND (electromyography OR electromyographies OR “surface electromyography” “electromyographies, surface” OR “electromyography, surface” OR “surface electromyographies” OR electromyogram OR electromyograms OR electroencephalography OR EEG OR electroencephalogram OR electroencephalograms), not including citations and patents in different databases. The concept of internal speech differed among the studies included in this review, but it was similar in terms of the absence of sound and articulatory movement. The purpose of the research that analyzed the biosignals of electroencephalography and/or surface electromyography in internal speech, comparing them or not with audible speech, was to develop systems that are controlled by the mental processing of the language.","PeriodicalId":42188,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudos da Linguagem","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43159534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-31DOI: 10.17851/2237-2083.30.3.1206-1237
José Roberto Junior
: Founded on the theoretical and methodological premises of the constructional approach, which defines language as a complex adaptative system, organized in networks of constructions that, linked by vertical and horizontal links and united by form and meaning traces, constitute families (BYBEE, 2016; DIESSEL, 2019; GOLDBERG 1995; 2006; 2019; 2020; TRAUGOTT; TROUSDALE, 2021; inter alia ); this paper investigates, in diachronic perspective, the genesis and the development of the egressive aspectual constructional family in Portuguese, through three microconstructions’ analysis: [deixar+de+V inf. ], [parar+de+V inf. ] e [largar+de+V inf. ]. Thus, quantitative and qualitative methods are used in the examination of the data collected from Corpus do Português (DAVIES; FERREIRA, 2006; 2016) between 13 th and 21 st centuries; moreover, in order to verify the extensibility of the pairings in the network, checking the semantic-pragmatic verb types, sanctioned in the Vinf. slot, is listed as a parameter. The results demonstrates that the egressive aspectual group formation originates in the transitive family, whose semantics indicates the distance among the participants in the predication. Member of this family, the contentful microconstruction with deixar has its object slot neoanalyzed, giving rise to [deixar+de+V inf. ] pairing, which, by the spreading activation mechanism, becomes a member of the egressive aspectual family in the auxiliarity network. Subsequently, the [parar+de+V inf. ] e [largar+de+V inf. ] microconstructions emerge by analogization, and, since their sharing similarities, they also consolidate in this procedural group. Therefore, this investigation confirms the importance of associating diachronic trajectories and cognitive processes in explaining how multiform networks link and promote the constructional families’ (re) configuration.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-31DOI: 10.17851/2237-2083.30.3.1397-1436
Sanderléia Roberta Longhin
: This paper investigates the diachronic establishment process of two concessive conjunctional periphrases in Portuguese, bem que and se bem que . With theoretical support from Grammaticalization, in particular Traugott and Dasher (2002), Heine and Kuteva (2007), Bybee (2010), and some assumptions from pragmatic theories about concessivity, according to Anscombre (1980), Ducrot (1984), Moeschler and Spengler (1982), Rossari (2014), the main issue is about understanding the link between the semantics of the adverbial source, the contextually induced inferential processes and the type of concessive meaning. The analyses are based on a diachronic sample featuring texts from ancient to modern Portuguese, and on a methodology guided by the the constructions’ polysemic standards with their corresponding distributional properties. The results provide evidence that, despite being two change phenomena which arise in different states of language and distinct contexts, both have the adverb bem at their source, in the role of emphatic affirmation, and both specialize in expressing restrictive concessive relations. The data doubly compatible with source and target interpretations evidences gradual processes from pragmatic towards semantics, in which the concepts of polyphony and argumentative hierarchy are of importance.
本文考察了葡萄牙语中两个让步连词的历时建立过程:bem que和se bem que。在语法化的理论支持下,特别是Traugott and Dasher(2002)、Heine and Kuteva(2007)、Bybee(2010),以及Anscombre(1980)、Ducrot(1984)、Moeschler and Spengler(1982)、Rossari(2014)等语用理论对让步的一些假设,主要问题是如何理解状语源的语义、语境诱导推理过程和让步意义类型之间的联系。分析是基于从古代到现代葡萄牙语文本的历时样本,并以结构的多义词标准及其相应的分布特性为指导的方法。结果表明,尽管这两种变化现象出现在不同的语言状态和不同的语境中,但它们都有副词的来源,都起着强调肯定的作用,都专门表达限制性的让步关系。与源译和译语双重兼容的数据证明了从语用到语义的渐进过程,其中复调和论证层次的概念是重要的。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-31DOI: 10.17851/2237-2083.30.3.1469-1508
B. Turra, Thaís de Araujo da Costa
In the light of materialist Discourse Analysis, in its relationship with the History of Linguistic Ideas, we will reflect on the functioning of the sayings broadcasted on 11/9/2018 by the newly elected presidential candidate’s Youtube channel about what he named “gender ideology” when commenting an Enem question. Our objective is to relate some regularities observed in these sayings with what we are trying to formulate as a Bolsonarist discourse. Therefore, we have established three starting questions: 1) how are the speaker, interlocutor and object of these sayings signified in the speech of the elected candidate?; 2) what are the policies announced for Enem and how do they articulate with this imaginary?; and, 3) how does the 2018 commentary relate to the one on the 2021 edition carried out in the third year of his term? The analysis pointed out elements that strengthen our hypothesis of a “bolsonarist discourse”, such as: the projection of two others – an interlocutor and an object, signified as an enemy to be fought –; and the articulation of positions affiliated to different discourses (conservative, (neo)liberal, nationalist, religious) from which a new way of enunciating and, therefore, of becoming a subject is established.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-31DOI: 10.17851/2237-2083.30.3.1278-1313
Alessandro Boechat de Medeiros
Abstract: This paper analyzes the Brazilian Portuguese adjective mesmo with anaphoric reading (MOLTMANN, 1993; FERREIRA, 2010). Expanding the functional layer of the determiner phrase (e. g., CINQUE, 2010), this analysis proposes that mesmo has “pronominal” properties and that there is a specific position in the functional structure of DP/NP which hosts both possessive pronouns and anaphoric mesmo, at least in the end of derivation, and such a position is in fact a host for adjectives with pronominal properties. In the last sections the article (using tools of formal semantics: e. g. HEIM; KRATZER, 1998) presents a semantic definition for anaphoric mesmo, arguing that it is a sort of implicit comparative item (CARLSON, 1987), with a “comparison function” as part of its very definition. We propose, taking advantage of insights of the pertinent literature (ALRENGA, 2010; HEIM, 1985; LASERSOHN, 2000; among others), that the semantics of mesmo is composed of an assignment function and a function which establishes a contextual equivalence by means of the sharing of relevant properties between the referent or kind introduced by the DP with mesmo and an individual or kind mentioned in previous discourse. In the end of the paper, we briefly speculate on the semantics of what is here called “explicit” comparative mesmo (that includes a comparative CP after the noun), which, as well as the distributive mesmo (CARLSON, 1987, among others), and as this text intends to show in the following pages, is hierarchically lower, in the syntax of DPs, than anaphoric mesmo.Keywords: Mesmo; Determiner Phrase; Adjectives; Comparative Semantics.Resumo: Este trabalho analisa o adjetivo mesmo do português brasileiro com a leitura anafórica (MOLTMANN, 1993; FERREIRA, 2010). Expandindo a camada funcional do sintagma determinante (e. g., CINQUE, 2010), esta análise propõe que mesmo tem propriedades “pronominais” e que há uma posição específica na estrutura funcional do DP/NP que alberga, pelo menos ao fim da derivação, tanto pronomes possessivos quanto o adjetivo mesmo anafórico, e tal posição recebe, de fato, adjetivos com propriedades pronominais. Nas últimas seções o artigo apresenta (usando ferramentas da semântica formal: por exemplo, HEIM; KRATZER, 1998) uma definição semântica para o mesmo anafórico, defendendo que ele é uma espécie de item de comparação implícita (CARLSON, 1987), tendo uma “função de comparação” como parte de sua definição. Propomos, aproveitando insights da literatura pertinente (ALRENGA, 2010; HEIM, 1985; LASERSOHN, 2000; entre outros), que a semântica de mesmo é composta por uma função de assinalamento e uma função que estabelece uma equivalência contextual por meio de um compartilhamento de propriedades relevantes entre o referente ou tipo introduzido pelo DP que contém mesmo e um indivíduo ou tipo mencionado no discurso prévio. Por fim, o artigo especula sobre a semântica do que aqui é chamado mesmo “explicitamente” comparativo (que inclui um CP
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