scholarly journals Brazilian Portuguese noun phrases: An optimality theoretic perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Pires de Oliveira ◽  
Henriëtte de Swart
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese

scholarly journals Genericity and the denotation of common nouns in Brazilian Portuguese

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Müller
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Natural Languages ◽  
Generic Sentences

This paper investigates what the semantics of generic sentences in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) says about the denotation of Noun Phrases in that language. More specifically, it addresses the syntactic and semantic differences among the indefinite nominals that get a generic interpretation in BP. The paper may also be taken to test well-known hypotheses about the functioning of genericity in natural languages.

scholarly journals Perception Verbs in Brazilian Portuguese: A Functional Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 268-310
Author(s):  
Kees Hengeveld ◽  
Edson Rosa Francisco de Souza ◽  
Maria Luiza Braga ◽  
Valéria Vendrame
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
High Extent ◽  
Perception Verbs ◽  
Discourse Grammar

AbstractThis paper examines the semantic and morphosyntactic complementation patterns of perception verbs in Brazilian Portuguese. Using the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar, five semantic complement types are identified. It is subsequently shown that these five types are in an implicational relationship, such that the set of semantic complement types that a certain perception verb in Brazilian Portuguese may take occupies a contiguous segment on a hierarchy of semantic complement types. The morphosyntactic complements of perception verbs in Brazilian Portuguese include noun phrases, finite, and non-finite clauses, the latter comprising progressive1 and infinitival forms. The second part of the study shows that the choice for one of these types can to a high extent be predicted from the semantics of the complements, using the same hierarchy of semantic complement types.

scholarly journals Head identification in binominal constructions

2021 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-21
Author(s):  
Roberto Gomes Camacho ◽  
Monielly Cristina Saverio Serafim
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Selection Restrictions

Determining the head of complex noun phrases is in general not an easy task in Portuguese. In the case of uma garrafa de vinho ‘a bottle of wine’, in combination with quebrou-se ‘broke’ or derramou ‘spilled’, it is the selection restrictions of the verb that determine which noun functions as head. This paper deals with a specific type of Brazilian Portuguese NP, aquele idiota do médico ‘that idiot of a doctor’, called “binominal” by Aarts (1998). The two types of nominal elements, linked by the preposition de, are the first constituent, idiota ‘idiot’, which has an evaluative status, and the second constituent, médico ‘doctor’, which has a referential status. The hypothesis defended here is that the evaluative nature of the first constituent and the referential nature of the second consist in a conclusive criterion for the determination of headedness.

scholarly journals Indeterminação do sujeito no português brasileiro: o pessoal tá inventando moda

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Quarezemin ◽  
Gabriel Fuchsberger
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
The Other ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

This paper describes and analyses a new strategy of subject indetermination in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). The new strategy presents generic noun phrases, such as tu/você (‘you’), a gente (‘we’), o cara (‘the guy’), a pessoa (‘the person’), etc., in the subject position without an explicit referent. We argue that the type of sentence addressed in this study is devoid of referentiality. Its emergence seems to have to do with the fall of the clitic se, on the one hand, and with the need to fill the pre-verbal position, on the other.

Bare singular noun phrases are mass in Brazilian Portuguese

Lingua ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 121 (15) ◽  
pp. 2153-2175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Pires de Oliveira ◽  
Susan Rothstein
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Singular Noun

Questionnaire on Eating and Weight Patterns-5--Brazilian Portuguese Version

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo Ferreira de Moraes ◽  
Carla Mourilhe ◽  
Sílvia Regina de Freitas ◽  
Glória Valéria da Veiga ◽  
Marsha D. Marcus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Portuguese Version
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