Search Results - "Journal of Portuguese Linguistics"

Habitual sentences with costumar ‘use to’: Issues of tense and interaction with frequentative adjuncts by Moia, Telmo

“…This paper analyses the expression of habitual values in Portuguese, focusing on the auxiliary verb costumar ‘use to’. First, the concept of habituality (and…”
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Complex predicates in African Varieties of Portuguese: transferential and causative readings of light verb dar ‘to give’ by Gonçalves, Rita, Brito, Ana Maria

“…In this paper, we discuss syntactic and semantic properties of complex predicates with the light verb dar ‘to give’ in three African Varieties of Portuguese…”
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Measuring the roles of variation and phonological density into the development of branching CCV onsets in Brazilian Portuguese by Andressa Toni

“…This study focuses on the acquisition of CCV syllables (Consonant1+Consonant2+Vowel) in Brazilian Portuguese. Our aim is to cast light on the roles of…”
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Null subject pronouns in Papiá Kristang (Malacca Creole Portuguese) by Alan Norman Baxter, Larissa de Santana Silva

“…This paper investigates variation in the subject pronoun expression (SPE) in Papiá Kristang (Malacca Creole Portuguese), a language without verb inflection…”
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Review of "A Description of Papiamentu. A Creole Language of the Caribbean Area," by Yolanda Rivera Castillo. Leiden: Brill, 2022 by Reynolds, Kevin B

“…The volume under review is a formal descriptive grammar of Papiamentu, the Iberian-lexified creole language spoken by the majority of inhabitants of the ABC…”
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Empirical Approaches to Portuguese Linguistics - New insights from studies in various areas of grammar by Kocher, Anna, Fally, Irene, Goryczka, Pamela

“…Over the last two decades, empirical methods have become increasingly prominent in linguistics. Even traditionally more introspective theoretical frameworks…”
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Patterns of progression of sound changes in a variety of Portuguese in contact with Italian immigration languages in Southern Brazil by Battisti, Elisa, Santos, Bruna Silva dos

“…The study deals with variable phonetic traits of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) in contact with Italian immigration languages. It focuses on the realization of an…”
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Dative possessor variation in Romance: a formal feature account with special reference to Portuguese by Duarte, Inês, Gonçalves, Rita, Chimbutane, Feliciano

“…In this paper we address possessor dative structures (PDSs) in European Portuguese (EP) and in the Mozambican variety of Portuguese spoken in Maputo, which is…”
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As pessoas, a quasi-pronominal human impersonal construction in European Portuguese? by Posio, Pekka

“…The grammaticalization of nouns meaning ‘man’ or ‘person’ into impersonal pronouns is a well-documented phenomenon found across the world. In Europe, such…”
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Review of Smuggling in Syntax, by Adriana Belletti and Chris Collins (Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press by Wang, Yihan, Zhou, Yong

“…This edited volume, Smuggling in Syntax, comprises eleven chapters which delineate a wide range of interesting applications of a smuggling approach in…”
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Implementing the U-shaped curve in Distributed Morphology and as a by-product of the third factor by Araújo-Adriano, Paulo Ângelo, Beraldo, Rafael

“…In this paper, we present a novel formal approach to overregularisation (e.g. fazi “doed”, trazi “bringed”) in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), a phenomenon widely…”
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Relativized temporal phrases: Language variation and change in contemporary Portuguese by Moia, Telmo

“…This paper discusses the use of relativized temporal phrases as a domain of particularly intense variation and change in contemporary Portuguese. Various…”
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On the presence and absence of definite articles with anthroponyms in rural varieties of Madeiran Portuguese by Henriques Pestana, Yoselin

“…European Portuguese (EP) generally manifests a systematic use of the definite article with anthroponyms in communicative immediacy (in the sense of Koch &…”
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Number-neutral indefinite objects in Brazilian Portuguese as a case of semantic incorporation by Wall, Albert

“…This paper provides empirical evidence for a verb-noun construction in Brazilian Portuguese, which has not yet been analyzed in the linguistic literature. It…”
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Onomasiological cyclicity in the expression of concessive relations by Longhin, Sanderléia Roberta

“…In this paper, I discuss processes of language change which have led to the constitution of concessive connectives in two genetically related languages, Latin…”
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The Portuguese Pluperfect: Development and the effect of auxiliary ter generalization by Balla-Johnson, William Robert

“…The Portuguese and Galician pluperfect is unique in Romance. Rather than developing a generalized compound pluperfect structure early, as did French and…”
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Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives by Flores, Cristina, Rinke, Esther, Torregrossa, Jacopo, Weingärtner, Daniel

“…The present study analyses written narratives of 60 Portuguese-German bilingual children between 8 and 15 years living in Switzerland, in both their languages…”
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Goal arguments of ir ‘to go’ and chegar ‘to arrive’ in three African varieties of Portuguese by Hagemeijer, Tjerk, Leal, António, Madureira, Raquel, Cordeiro, João

“…In research on African varieties of Portuguese, especially Angolan and Mozambican Portuguese, it is often referred that Goal arguments of verbs of movement…”
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On causatives – A comparison between European Portuguese and Mandarin Chinese by Yao, Jiaojiao

“…Based on the caused eventuality, causation can be subdivided into the causation of activity and causation of change of state. By analyzing how causatives are…”
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Dative Microvariation in African Varieties of Portuguese by Gonçalves, Rita, Duarte, Inês, Hagemeijer, Tjerk

“…In this paper we compare dative ditransitive structures in nativized and nativizing urban varieties of Portuguese spoken in Angola, Mozambique, and São Tomé…”
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