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Sequence of tenses in complementation structures: lexical restrictions and effects on language acquisition
| Resumo: | In this paper we discuss the combinations of tenses in main and complement clauses of European Portuguese, focusing on the issue that restrictions on the tenses allowed in complement clauses are observed with some predicates but not with others. We show that these lexical restrictions are independent of the mood occurring in the complement clause, though an integrated analysis of mood and tense may be achieved. The proposal is made that the observed lex-ical restrictions on embedded tenses have a semantic basis and fol-low from the fact that Portuguese is an SOT-language; i.e., a lan-guage where embedded tenses have semantic import. A preliminary investigation is conducted on the sequences of tenses produced at early stages of language acquisition. |
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| Autores principais: | Marques, Rui |
| Outros Autores: | Silvano, Purificação; Gonçalves, Anabela; Santos, Ana Lúcia |
| Ano: | 2015 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | capítulo de livro |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | In this paper we discuss the combinations of tenses in main and complement clauses of European Portuguese, focusing on the issue that restrictions on the tenses allowed in complement clauses are observed with some predicates but not with others. We show that these lexical restrictions are independent of the mood occurring in the complement clause, though an integrated analysis of mood and tense may be achieved. The proposal is made that the observed lex-ical restrictions on embedded tenses have a semantic basis and fol-low from the fact that Portuguese is an SOT-language; i.e., a lan-guage where embedded tenses have semantic import. A preliminary investigation is conducted on the sequences of tenses produced at early stages of language acquisition. |
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