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The article focuses on pure logic and a simple set of scientific laws that establish table relationships that considering certain circumstance. It mentions propositions endowed with logical value, relationships that are established among these propositions both for their logical value as well as its syntactic structure. It also mentions metonymy to the set of reasoning rules guaranteed by the laws of logic.

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Working with Bakairi since 1984, I have been calling attention to the difficulty in systematizing the occurrence of verbs according to their paradigms. The marks of the perfective aspect -- tai ~ -dai and --aki ~ -agi - select a whole set of affixes (time, aspect and negation) enrolled in this morphological splitting function. We also note that the verbs in -aki/-agi, when receive a transitive mark, change the paradigm. This does not occur with verbs in -tai/-dai when they receive the mark of a intransitivizer. So, I want to see how and what verbs Bakairi could be distributed in unaccusative/unergative bias (see: Perlmutter, 1978 and Burzio, 1986). The division transitive/intransitive does not hold, and the distribution of monargumental verbs seems linked to different factors, that meet criteria of morphological and syntactic order, given constraints and implications resulting from language syntactic ergative structure. It is the function of verbs in Bakairi that in the long range, we will explore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims at presenting the first thoughts of a research we are carrying out on the Immaterial Heritage of the Inconfidentes Region, on the basis of various interviews with inhabitants of Passagem de Mariana (Minas Gerais - Brazil), collected in 2012. At first, we presented the methodology used for collecting the interviews, then we built up a conceptual approach to the relationship between memory, cognition and discourse, based on categories derived from different theoretical frames, such as the notions of "discursive experienciation" (AUCHLIN, 2008), "performance and vocality" (ZUMTHOR, 1987), "cognitive-discursive memory" (PAVEAU, 2007), "semiotic space" (BRANDT, 2004), amongst others. To illustrate this approach, we analyzed a small excerpt of one of the interviews carried out in order to exemplify one of the guiding topics employed in the research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to discuss routes for the remodeling of the social lexicology proposed by Georges Matoré. In the first part, we describe Matoré's approach in its main lines and briefly present the main criticism it received. In the second part, we present a case study as a way of identifying routes for the remodeling of the mentioned approach. Finally, we claim for the necessity of studying lexicon within a broader frame of analysis on behalf of a sociohistorical lexicology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper is about subject and object focalization in SVO sentences in Brazilian Portuguese (henceforth BP). The focus is identified, in this study, as the constituent that conducts the non-presupposed information in the sentence, whereas the presupposition refers to information shared by the speakers in a discursive situation. The phenomenon of focalization is not free of the syntactic marking. The strategies to focalize the subject do not correspond exactly to the strategies used to focalize the object. Concerning the focalization in the subject, our hypothesis is that the BP, because it is 'losing' the properties of a null-subject language, makes use of the same focalization strategies of non-null languages such as English and French. As for the object focalization, there seems to be no distinction in the way the speakers focus such element. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, we revisit the concept of synonymy in order to test the hypothesis put forward by Pinker (2008), according to which two syntactic alternations should not have the same meaning. We describe syntactic alternations such as pintar a parede/pintar na parede, pegar o livro/pegar no livro and tocar o vidro/tocar no vidro, in order to verify if the holism effect is truly linked to the transitive construction. The conclusion is that Pinker's hypothesis is not validated by the Portuguese sentences. Finally, we argue that a contextual theory is more suitable to explain the data described, and that grammatical construction and lexical choice are the two factors defining synonymy, being both factors filtered out by context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper issue is to examine two classical proposals for middle construction formation: the syntactic one developed by Keyser and Roeper (1984); and the semantic one developed by Fagan (1988). After present the arguments of both works there is a discussion of the proposals with the focus in the eventive (for ergatives) and generic (for middles) properties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]