Gender is a language formalism and a category of agreement, being intrinsic and obligatory in nouns, while in adjectives it corresponds to a category transmitted by the noun, generally with a functional and non-lexical role. In European Portuguese, linguistic gender does not correlate with the notion of the gender of the referents, although the same terms – masculine and feminine – are used for gender categorie...
The knowledge that students are building about their own language is fundamental for reading comprehension, which corresponds to a complex phenomenon that involves different linguistic and cognitive processes. In the linguistic context, the contribution of the verb is important, which creates semantic and syntactic predictions about discursive entities, as subject and complements. Therefore, the knowledge of th...