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This paper presents an analysis of the verbal categories of Tense, Aspect and Mood as having the discourse function ofdistinguishing linguistic material from the foreground and background parts ofnarratives in the Portuguese language. The corpus analysed was taken from spontaneous oral narratives from speakers of Brazilian Portuguese.

This paper aims at analyzing certain cases of elision of Ib,d,g/ in intervocalic position taking into consideration both syllabic stnlt.'ture anel the number of syllables. 111e elialect t.meler stuely is the Argentine Spanish of Rosario, dty which belongs to the linguistic region of the Río ele la Plata. Finally, the results obtaineel in our analysis are contrasted to John Harris' point ofview (989) in order to ielentify in which stage within Lexical Phonology these phenomena are placed.

In this paper we examine the influence of the syllable structure of spoken Portuguese on the acquisition of written forms. Our main hypothesis is that spoken language offers a first model for the construction of written forms and so, by identifying the syllabic coda as a point of instability in spoken Portuguese, since it is subject to many phonological processes, we may predict that students will also present writing variations exactly at these same points. Our investigation takes into account structural as well as non-structural factors and we conclude that there is a strong correlation between instability in the syllabic coda and variation in their weitten representation.

This paper proposes a model ofreading processing based mainly on Fodor's (1983) theory ofthe modularity ofthe mind. According to this model there are many domains ofprocessing in reading. Some ofthem are part of the linguistic module and others are part ofthe cognitive processor. Among the domains of the linguistic module there are lexical access and sintactic parsing. To build up the propositional scheme of a text and to integrate the propositional macrostructure of the text to the reader's previous knowledge are tasks ofthe cognitive processor. This model also proposes aninterface between the linguistic module and the cognitive processor, where semantic parsing takes place.

The present paper summarizes the fundamental principIes of the syllable structure analysis proposed by Goldsmith (1990), on the basis of autosegmentaI phonology. According to this approach, sonority principIe, llcensing, directionallty of syllable structure creation, maximal anset principIe and syllabIe structure assignement are taken as universal laws that regulate a suitable syllable formation. Portuguese words are used to exempllfy function and appllcation af some of these principIes.

In this paper I discuss the characterization of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) in terms of the possibility of null subjects. Some recent analyses (TARALLO:1993b, DUARTE:1993/1995 and MENON:1994) have argued, on the basis of quantitative results, that BP has lost its prodrop character. But other variationist analyses (PAREDES DA SILVA:1988; NEGRÃO:1990; NICOLAU:1994; etc.) prove that BP can be characterized as presenting the possibility of null subjects. I show then that the proposal of linguistic change mentioned above cannot be maintained when faced with the Principles & Parameters model (cf. CHOMSKY:1981-1995). In other words, I show that the quantitative results of the variationist analyses cannot be considered as evidence of a parametric change or, more specifically, of the emergence of a new grammar.

ln this paper I analyse the influence ofthe morphological constitution ofthe verbal form onthe absence ofagreement between the verb and the NP subject of 3pp (third person of plural) in the colloquial Brazilian Portuguese. According to the results this absence is significantly more ftequent in the "regular" verbs (falalfalam, comei comem, fazlfazem, etc.) than in the other verbs (i.e. the ''non-regular" verbs). The central claim is that these results are due to the peculiar behavior ofthe ''regular'' verbs where lack ofagreement is the result of the interaction between variable processes - a morphosyntactic synchronic nde and some phonological diachronic processes.

The aim of this paper is to eliscuss the possible interpretations of the high back vowel [wl preceeleel by [kl ar [g] anel followeel by another vowel. Some phonologists interpret [kwl anel [gwl as the labializeel velars /k"'j anel /gw/, respectively. ln the framework of the present-elay preference for principies insteacl of mies, I argue that the best interpretation for these groups woulcl be as /k/ anel /gI followeel by a diphthong. However, both interpretations have aelvantages anel elisadvantages.

This paper presents scores of attitude tests applied in five Brazilian cities: Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, Florianópolis, João Pessoa and Porto Alegre. The results made possible the identification of a narrow relationship between self-confidence and cultural identity: the more people in a city are aware of the difference between their dialect and the dialect used by the media the proudes they are of their accent. It is exactly this accent which received the highest scores of acceptability by the speakers of other accents.

This paper describes the functional situation of the first person singular subject pronoun (PPl), in Brazilian Portuguese, in colloquial and spontaneous discourse. I point out data obtained from informal conversations which indicate the major presence of PPl in orallanguage and I also analyse several linguistic factors which could be contributing to its use, even when it seems not to be necessary.

The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis for the complementary distribution between the Brazilian forms você and cê (Uyou"). I argue that cê is a clitic and constitutes a step in the grammaticalization process of the form Vossa Mercê.

This paper presents a descriptive analysis of the psychological verbs in Brazilian Portuguese. A new classification for these verbs is proposed: in the current literature we find two classes of psychverbs; I propose four different classes based on a fine-grained approach of thematic relations. AIso, I make a thorough revision of many syntactic and semantic properties of psych-verbs. Accorcling to this analysis, I present some clues towards a semantic approach to the problems related to those verbs. As there are interesting questions related to psych-verbs conceming the organization of argument structure, I hope the data presented are useful to other researchers from different lines, working with Brazilian Portuguese.

ln this paper I keep the diffusionist assumption that sound changes are better viewed as controlled by the lexicon. AIso, I propose here that the lexicon should be taken as the output of grammar. ar, in other words, I propose that the lexicon should be analyzed in terms of the utterances in which it occurs, with all the contextuai information that it carnes, and not in terms of its virtual characteristics.

This paper presents a study of passive sentences of the type SUBJECT - BE - PAST PARTICIPLE - PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE. The data include formal written Portuguese as well as spoken Portuguese elicited in interviews. The pragrnatic function of the passive conceming text organization is discussed. The gradient notion of transitivity is employed as an indicator of the portion of the text (foreground/background) where the passive tends to occur.

This paper follows a functional approach which takes into account the real use of language as an instrument of communication. We are malnly lnterested ln lnvestigating the ways through whlch syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact. ln order to do this, we study the behaviour of the adverbs já, mais and ainda ln negative sentences. First, we review the use of some elements which reinforce the very idea of negation. Secondly, we deal, specifically, with the adverbs, já, mais and ainda as a reinforcement to the negative. Thirdly, we aim at verifying their behaviour from an argumentative perspective. Finally, we present our conclusions.

This paper demonstratel! emplrical evldences for a functional hypothesls about the language prosodic leveI. Modem Brazilian Portuguese data shaw that the noun phrases, wh1ch have a certaln supra-segmental feature, are llnlts ln discourse. Pragmatic motivations are aIso discussed, spec1a1ly the lnteractional polnt of view.

The main purpose ofthis paper is to make evident tbat many lexical items ofthe portuguese language cannotbe seen as exceptions to the pretonic mid vowels raining rules as they bave been cobsidered and tbat through the residue analysis the remaining exceptions bring out the need ofunderstanding language as "enunciação" in the linguistic change processes.

ln this paper, written in the framework of the PrincipIes and Parameters Theory, we propose an altemative anaIysis for post-verbaI constituents of inaccusative verbs, on the basis of Brazilian Portuguese data. Basically, we anaIyze these constituents as predicative constructions and we extend this anaIysis to all constructions which contain the so-called "definitude effect".

lnthe previous studies ofautosegmental phonology, the nasal harmony was considered as the universally conditionedharmony process, like tone, [±back], [ATR].lnthis paper, following the theory ofClements (1991), I propose that the language particular association convention should be assumed to explain the nasal harmony in Aguruna.

The aim of this paper is to show how concerned Benveniste was with the theme of ‘reference’ or the relationship between language and reality. The reintroduction of this theme into Linguistics breaks new ground by showing how the study of language can be combined with an interest in broader problems of social analysis. Benveniste provides a concise and critical review of the problem of ‘meaning’ in Linguistics. In spite of being accused of a lack of historical postulates, Benveniste’s contributions are of paramount mportance for discourse analysis, especially in the French tradition.

The main argument ofthe present paper is that certain linguistic faets - which are central in the dispute for a politically correct use of language - are of paramount importance for discourse analysis, especially in the Frenchtradition. lnthis theory, language functioning and meaning are explained interms ofhistorical postulates. Yet, such facts are frequently disputed by speakers, andthis has the consequence of making explicit the fight for words and their senses. The widest known cases are those which encompass racist (e. g. blaek vs. afrobrazilian or afro-american) or sexist (e. g. sissy vs. homosexual) language.