Introduction: The prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection seems to be stabilized at 0.7% but in some countries, it continues to rise. For many years it was only associated with the African continent and specific populations, but today there is an increase in the incidence in developed countries. This infection can be asymptomatic or have non-specific symptoms. Those depend on the stage of the...
Os provérbios fazem parte da nossa memória coletiva e vertem a maneira de agir e de pensar de um povo: as nossas vivências, as nossas alegrias, tristezas, preocupações, valores… A pandemia, que teve o seu início, em Portugal, em março de 2020, como sabemos, veio trazer, por um lado, um novo rumo às nossas vidas e impulsionou o uso e a (re)criação de novos vocábulos ou expressões, incluindo palavras como "confin...
This paper presents results of an experiment on epithets in Brazilian Portuguese, with sentences with the verb convencer ‘to convince’ and sentences with adjunct clauses. The assumption that the distribution of epithets is subject to Principle C of Binding Theory (Chosmky 1981) goes back to Lasnik (1976) and is controversial in the literature. We argue that although this assumption is not able to explain ...