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Which factors influence the anaphoric resolution of null objects and clitics in...
Rinke, Esther; Kerezova, NelliBased on a corpus study, this paper examines the relevance of pragmatic factors for the choice of the referent of a null object or a clitic in European Portuguese. The results show that both null objects and clitic pronouns are markers of high accessibility like null subjects, referring to referents recently and explicitly mentioned in discourse. However, they differ from null subjects in the absence of prolong...
The agreement that never gets old: discursive-pragmatic analysis of the verbal ...
Ninitas, MarianaThe Orthographic Agreement of 1990 (hereinafter AO90), although it’s mandatory in Portugal in 2015, remains, nowadays, a fertile topic for opinion texts. Therefore, the present work aims to analyze the discursive construction of verbal polemics in three opinion texts about the AO90, drawing on the perspectives of Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, and Argumentation Studies. Based on the data collected, it was poss...
Comparison of AMR annotations across languages: problems and solutions
Baptista, Jorge; Reis, Sónia; Santos, Pedro A.; Dias, JoãoThis study presents an adaptation of the Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) framework for European Portuguese. This adaptation, referred to as Lexicalized Meaning Representation (LMR), was deemed necessary to address specific challenges posed by the grammar of the language, as well as various linguistic issues raised by the current version of AMR annotation guidelines. Some of these aspects stemmed from the ...
Differentiating Brazilian and European Portuguese Multiword Adverbs
Muller, Izabela; Mamede, Nuno; Baptista, JorgeThe identification of Portuguese multiword adverbs in texts such as de fininho ‘sneakily’ or em plena luz do dia ‘in broad daylight’ is an essential part of determining the meaning units forming a text. This paper explores the boundaries of adverbial multiword expressions in European and Brazilian Portuguese varieties. The primary purpose is to determine the frequency and distribution of the expressions in the ...
“Mato-te”, “vou-te matar” or “hei-de-te matar”: some notes on the use of verb t...
Ferreira, Ana Sofia; Cantante, Inês; Rebouças, RuteThe threatening offence is legally constituted under specific legal criteria (cf. Hutton, 2021), which differ from what is commonly interpreted as a threatening utterance. Legally, the threat offence must fulfil at least three criteria: i) the provocation of fear or unease in the addressee; ii) the constitution of a future harm; and, finally, iii) “the will of the perpetrator” to carry out the threat (cf. Art. ...
Development of subordination structures in writing: longitudinal study with pri...
Batalha, Joana; Cardoso, Aida; Lobo, MariaThe present study investigates the longitudinal development of syntactic complexity in writing at early stages of development. It is based on the hypothesis that the use of subordination structures contributes to the characterization of syntactic complexity in writing, particularly in narratives produced in the first years of schooling. Specifically, we seek to answer the following research questions: (i) What ...
Acquisition of grammatical aspect morphology in Portuguese by bilingual speaker...
Bragança, BrunaThis study aims to investigate how Chinese-Portuguese bilingual children understand the progressive (imperfective) and the simple past (perfective) in different contexts in Portuguese. We also want to understand whether extralinguistic factors, such as linguistic experience and the age at which children are regularly exposed to Portuguese, influence the acquisition and comprehension of aspectual morphology. We ...
The symbolic power of rudeness and the construction of discursive identities in...
Antão, Marta; Almeida, Carla Aurélia deBased on the interventions made in the comments forum that takes place on social networks, where anonymity and direct, short language predominate, a socio-discursive analysis is undertaken of the way in which hate speech is co-constructed. From the point of view of Sociopragmatics, the strategies of linguistic rudeness are analysed, rebalancing this linguistic use with gender (male and female) and with how the ...
Effects of input on L2 acquisition of EP: the case of null objects
Teixeira, Joana; Fiéis, Alexandra; Madeira, AnaThis study investigates the acquisition of null objects in L2 European Portuguese (EP), using an elicited oral production task and two speeded acceptability judgement tasks (written and oral). Participants were 25 L1 EP speakers and 30 L1 Spanish-L2 EP adult learners at intermediate to near-native levels. Results show that L1 and L2 EP speakers produce and accept clitics significantly more than null objects. Re...