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1. Ter/Haver-Existential Clauses in Brazilian Portuguese: Variation and Change.

Author

Callou, Dinah

Abstract

This paper discusses the details of existential sentences constructed with the Portuguese verbs "ter" and "haver" in the interpersonal form. The uses of these verbs are discussed and analyzed in detail. The history and evolution of linguistic changes in Brazilian Portuguese are discussed in an attempt to detect historical social and cultural factors responsible for the variation in existential sentences. (Contains 15 references.) (KFT)

Published
2001

2. Revista de Documentacao de Estudos em Linguistica Teorica e Aplicada (DELTA): Novos Estudos em Gamatica Gerativa, 2001 (Journal of Documentary Studies in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics [DELTA]: New Studies in Generative Grammar, 2001).

Author

Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo (Brazil). Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Linguistica Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem., Barbara, Leila, and Rajagopalan, Kanavillil

Abstract

These two issues of volume 17, include the following articles: "The Competing Motivation Model in the Functional Domains of Negation" (M. Angelica Furtado da Cunha); "Discursive Resonance and Politeness in Reading and Writing Practices" (Silvana Serrani Infante); "The Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Brazilian Portuguese" (Maria Cecilia Perroni); "Has the Adverbial Entao Already Become Grammaticalized as a Conjunction?" (Erotilde Goreti Pezzatti); "The Two Great of Brazilian Sociolinguistic History (1500-2000)" (Dante E. Lucchesi); "Interview with M.A.K. Halliday, Cardiff, July, 1998" (Geoff Thompson and Heloisa Collins); "Brazilian Portuguese and the Null Subject Parameter" (M. Aparecida C.R. Torres-Morais); "Applied Research in Language: Challenges for the New Millennium" (Carlos Alberto Faraco); "Textlinguistics: Quo Vadis?" (Ingedore Grunfeld Villaca Koch); "Dialectology: Traveled Roads and Routes to Travel" (Suzana Alice Marcelino Cardoso); "Theoretical and Descriptive Issues in Sociolinguistics and in Applied Sociolinguistics and a Project for an Agenda" (Maria Cecilia de Magalhaes Mollica and Claudia Nivia Roncarti); and "Research in Portuguese Phonology" (Maria Helena Mira Mateus). An appendix includes: "52nd SBPC Annual Meeting: Brasilia, July 2000 Meeting: Scientific Journals in the New Century"; "Letters and Linguistics Brazilian Journals" (Luiz Antonio Marcuschi); "Electronic Texts" (Vilson J. Leffa); and "The Preparation of a General Journal" (Leila Barbara, Maria Aparecida Caltabianco, and Sumiko N. Ikeda). (Papers contain references.) (SM)

Published
2001

3. Prolegomenos a um estudo da lingua brasileira nos terreiros de origem africana (Prolegomena to a Study of the Brazilian Language of the Voodoo Rites of African Origin).

Author

Megenney, William W.

Abstract

Determination of the authenticity of lexical items with Sub-Saharan origin in the voodoo rites of candomble and umbanda in Brazil requires establishing a socio-historical basis for the African diaspora and the current configuration of terreiros. The terreiros demonstrate varying linguistic repertoires according to their affiliation with candomble or umbanda. The terreiros may be of three types 1) yoruban (Nago) in Bahia and Recife; 2) Fon in Sao Luis; and 3) Bantu in the oldest layers of umbanda, the caboclo candombles of Bahia, and the Northeastern cantimbo, the latter being the least apparent. Umbanda has lost a greater amount of Sub-Saharan traditions and contains more Bantu elements, although they appear less frequently since they are in the oldest layers of umbanda. The task of determining the African origins of linguistic data is complicated by pragmatic factors such as the existence of phonological correspondence without accompanying semantic correspondence, the difficulty of determining the meaning of a word in a given text and of tracing which Sub-Saharan language influenced which terreiro, and the scarcity of dictionaries and grammars of Sub-Saharan languages brought to Brazil by the slaves. (SR)

Published
1991