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Castelo, Adelina; Fiéis, Alexandra; Flores, CristinaTechnical Details; Ficha Técnica
Foreword
Castelo, Adelina; Fiéis, Alexandra; Flores, CristinaForeword to issue 10.; Nota Prévia ao n.º 10 da RAPL.
The present participle in Old Portuguese
Fiéis, Alexandra; Maria Lobo; Cláudia MartinsThis paper describes the behavior of present participles in a corpus of Old Portuguese and it raises some hypotheses concerning their syntactic status, compared to other non-finite forms. Although present participles in contemporary Portuguese no longer exist as verbal forms, in Old Portuguese we could find verbal occurrences of this form. In Old Portuguese, present participles could occur in typical adjectival...
Clitics and null objects in the L2 acquisition of Portuguese
Fiéis, Alexandra; Madeira, AnaThis study investigates whether the acquisition of clitics in L2 Portuguese is characterised by high rates of omission, as has been observed in L1 acquisition. On the basis of production and comprehension data from three intermediate learner groups (speakers of English, Spanish and Chinese), we conclude that there is no evidence for a generalised omission strategy. Omission in L2 Portuguese appears to be determ...
Pronoun interpretation and the acquisition of referential dependencies in L2 Po...
Fiéis, Alexandra; Madeira, AnaThis study investigates whether L2 learners of (European) Portuguese display asymmetries in their comprehension of reflexive and non-reflexive pronouns, as has been found in L2 English (e.g., Kim, Montrul & Yoon, 2014). Forty- one intermediate learners of L2 Portuguese, who were L1 speakers of Spanish, English and Chinese, completed a truth-value judgement task (Silva, 2015) testing both reflexive and non-r...