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In this paper we present a study that aimed to reflect on the implications of the use of cambio verbs in the acquisition process of Spanish as an L2 by Brazilian learners and to analyze the effects of a pedagogical intervention based on a self-instruction about these verbs in predicative constructions, contrasting their aspectual properties. The experiment was carried out with a group of participants who performed sentence acceptability judgment tasks with the target verbs (ponerse, quedarse, hacerse and volverse) in predicative constructions, interspersed by the self-instruction. Data analysis revealed that there was a slight increase of the accuracy and the reaction times decreased afterthe instruction. These results, although without a solid statistical significance, may indicate the potential of this pedagogical intervention to contribute with the learning of cambio verbs in Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, our aim is to present the results of our researchs about the anaphoric accusative object in the Spanish variety of Madrid and in the Brazilian Portuguese variety of São Paulo and to propose a theoretical analysis to these constructions based on minimalist developments (CHOMSKY, 1999, 2000, 2004). Interviews of the Spanish variety of Madrid (CESTERO MANCERA et al. 2014) and Brazilian Portuguese variety of São Paulo (LIMA-HERNANDES; VICENTE, 2012) were analysed. Regarding the theoretical approach, the biological (CHOMSKY, 1981, 1986) and social (LABOV, 2008; WEINREICH; LABOV; HERZOG, 2009) perspectives on language were combined. We observed the effect of the antecedent referenciality, of the determinant indefinite features, of the bare nouns, of the structure and lexical aspect of verbs on possibility of elipsis in the Spanish variety of Madrid. Concerning the Brazilian Portuguese variety of São Paulo, the null objects were almost categorical and the lexical pronoun presented restrictions to less referencial antecedents. These results ressemble the tendencies of our previous research (SIMÕES, 2015) and the Spanish varieties of País Vasco (LANDA, 1993) and Quito (SUÑER; YÉPEZ, 1988). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper intends to present an analysis of two uses of adversative conjunction pero found in a Spanish written corpus in digital media. The theoretical-methodological apparatus used is the Functional Discourse Grammar - FDG (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008). According to RAE (2009), pero is coordinative conjunction in which presents two opposing clauses. From the point of view of FDG, however, these two units configure Discourse Acts in an unequal relationship, which engender Concession rhetorical function. The speaker presents an Act to grant information in order to then present another Act that he considers arguably more relevant. Some of the uses found in this study are beyond that interpretation. The research universe consists of data collected from blogs and extracted from CORPES (Corpus del Español del Siglo XXI), from the Real Academia Española. It was verified that, besides being used between two Discourse Acts, it can also introduce Moves and also emphasize a Subact previously presented, being a valuable element for the speaker's argument. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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this paper analyzes the significance of the expression "argentino neutro" [neutral Argentinian], used from 2009 to 2015 in official documents on the education portal Educ.ar and on the Ministry of Education's various TV channels ("Encuentro," "Pakapaka" and "DeporTV"). By examining style manuals in detail from Encuentro and Pakapaka, corresponding to the years 2012-2015, we will attempt to show that these documents construct a linguistic model alternate to the various attempts at Spanish language unification, in particular "Panhispanism" or so-called "neutral Spanish." Moreover, this alternative linguistic model was consistently reflected in the Ministry of Education's television programming, which exhibited a much more diverse linguistic representation in Argentinian media than usual. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resumo: Neste trabalho, nosso objetivo é apresentar os resultados de nossas pesquisas sobre o objeto acusativo anafórico na variedade de espanhol de Madri e na variedade do português brasileiro de São Paulo, assim como sugerir uma análise teórica para essas construções a partir dos desenvolvimentos minimalistas (CHOMSKY, 1999, 2000, 2004). Analisamos entrevistas da variedade de espanhol de Madri (CESTERO MANCERA et al. 2014) e do português brasileiro (LIMA-HERNANDES; VICENTE, 2012). Como referencial teórico, aliamos as perspectivas biológica (CHOMSKY, 1981, 1986) e social de língua (LABOV, 2008; WEINREICH; LABOV; HERZOG, 2009). Observamos a atuação da referencialidade do antecedente, do traço de indefinitude do determinante, da ausência de determinante, da estrutura verbal e do aspecto lexical na possibilidade de elipses na variedade de espanhol de Madri. Em relação à variedade do português brasileiro de São Paulo, observamos objetos nulos quase categóricos e que os pronomes lexicais apresentam restrições na expressão de antecedentes menos referenciais. Esses resultados se assemelham aos de nossa pesquisa anterior (SIMÕES, 2015) e às variedades de espanhol do País Basco (LANDA, 1993) e de Quito (SUÑER; YÉPEZ, 1988). Palavras-chave: espanhol; português brasileiro; objeto acusativo anafórico, variação linguística; concordância de objeto. Abstract: In this paper, our aim is to present the results of our researchs about the anaphoric accusative object in the Spanish variety of Madrid and in the Brazilian Portuguese variety of São Paulo and to propose a theoretical analysis to these constructions based on minimalist developments (CHOMSKY, 1999, 2000, 2004). Interviews of the Spanish variety of Madrid (CESTERO MANCERA et al. 2014) and Brazilian Portuguese variety of São Paulo (LIMA-HERNANDES; VICENTE, 2012) were analysed. Regarding the theoretical approach, the biological (CHOMSKY, 1981, 1986) and social (LABOV, 2008; WEINREICH; LABOV; HERZOG, 2009) perspectives on language were combined. We observed the effect of the antecedent referenciality, of the determinant indefinite features, of the bare nouns, of the structure and lexical aspect of verbs on possibility of elipsis in the Spanish variety of Madrid. Concerning the Brazilian Portuguese variety of São Paulo, the null objects were almost categorical and the lexical pronoun presented restrictions to less referencial antecedents. These results ressemble the tendencies of our previous research (SIMÕES, 2015) and the Spanish varieties of País Vasco (LANDA, 1993) and Quito (SUÑER; YÉPEZ, 1988). Keywords: Spanish; Brazilian Portuguese; anaphoric accusative object; linguistic variation; object agreement.

Comparam-se resultados de análises de regra variável sobre a representação do sujeito pronominal de referências definida no italiano, no espanhol europeu, argentino e porto-riquenho e no português brasileiro. Embora conduzidos por diferentes pesquisadores, esses trabalhos podem ser comparados porque têm metodologias semelhantes e partem dos mesmos pressupostos teóricos: a Gramática Gerativa e a Sociolinguística, numa associação denominada Variação Paramétrica. Assume-se a visão de parâmetro como uma entidade contínua, havendo infinitas possibilidades de comportamento que pode ser apresentado por diferentes línguas em relação ao fenômeno. Com base na comparação das análises, as línguas são ordenadas segundo diferentes aspectos: (a) as taxas gerais de sujeitos nulos encontradas, (b) a intensidade da atuação do grupo de fatores ‘condição de referência’, relacionado à acessibilidade de um sujeito ao seu antecedente, (c) a estabilidade, “medida” pela quantidade de grupos de fatores apontados como condicionamentos para a seleção entre o apagamento e o preenchimento do pronome e (d) o grau de riqueza dos paradigmas flexionais verbais, considerando apenas a oposição entre as três pessoas gramaticais. A ordenação das línguas segundo cada um desses critérios coincide, mas isso não deve ser interpretado como casual ou aleatório – ao contrário, indica que todos esses aspectos estão relacionados à capacidade, na língua, do núcleo I de identificar sujeitos nulos, sendo propriedades de um mesmo parâmetro.

This study aims to map researches on Contrastive Linguistics in Brazil that emphasize the contrast between Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish, from 1988 to 2010. The mapping was carried out with the following specific objectives: (i) categorize the researches in the analytical models of Contrastive Linguistics, (ii) identify the Brazilian institutions where those researches are carried out, and (iii) classify the researches according to the linguistic approach employed. This work consists of a bibliographical survey whose data were obtained from the theses database of CAPES in November 2011. The search criterion (without specific date) used the following search terms combined: Contrastive Linguistics Spanish, Contrastive Analysis Spanish, Error Analysis Spanish, Interlanguage Spanish, Transfer Spanish, Interference Spanish, and Fossilization Spanish. The output was a total of 111 studies, whose largest concentration is in the South and Southeast regions of Brazil, featuring 27 and 64 studies, respectively. The preferred approach concerns the morphosyntactic aspects, namely the pronominal system of the two languages . The present study concludes that researches in Brazilian universities have developed important work on the morpho syntactic, lexical-semantic and phonetic-phonological aspects, however the work with pragmatic or discursive approaches is still incipient.

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Resumo: Neste artigo, pretende-se apresentar uma análise dos usos de pero encontrados em um corpus do espanhol escrito em meios digitais. O aparato teórico-metodológico utilizado é o modelo da Gramática Discursivo-Funcional – GDF (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008). De acordo com a gramática da Real Academia Española (RAE, 2009), pero é uma conjunção coordenativa que relaciona duas orações opostas, que se contrapõem. Do ponto de vista da GDF, essas duas unidades configuram Atos Discursivos em relação desigual, que engendram função retórica Concessão. O falante apresenta um Ato para conceder uma informação a fim de, em seguida, apresentar outro Ato que considera argumentativamente mais relevante. Alguns usos encontrados neste estudo, no entanto, fogem dessa interpretação. O corpus selecionado consiste em dados de blogs extraídos do CORPES (Corpus del Español del Siglo XXI), da Real Academia Española. Verificou-se que pero, além de ser utilizado na camada mais alta do Nível Interpessoal (o Ato Discursivo), introduz Movimentos e ainda enfatiza um Subato anteriormente apresentado, sendo um elemento muito importante do ponto de vista argumentativo. Palavras-chave: pero; espanhol; argumentação; retórica. Abstract: This paper intends to present an analysis of two uses of adversative conjunction pero found in a Spanish written corpus in digital media. The theoretical-methodological apparatus used is the Functional Discourse Grammar – FDG (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008). According to RAE (2009), pero is coordinative conjunction in which presents two opposing clauses. From the point of view of FDG, however, these two units configure Discoursive Acts in an unequal relationship, which engender Concession rhetorical function. The speaker presents an Act to grant information in order to then present another Act that he considers arguably more relevant. Some of the uses found in this study are beyond that interpretation. The research universe consists of data collected from blogs and extracted from CORPES (Corpus del Español del Siglo XXI), from the Real Academia Española. It was verified that, besides being used between two Discourse Acts, it can also introduce Moves and also emphasize a Subact previously presented, being a valuable element for the speaker’s argument. Keywords: pero; Spanish; argumentation; rhetoric.

The purpose of this paper is to understand, through the Spanish teacher's, the pedagogic coordinator's, and the principal's accounts, two beliefs about the teaching and learning of Spanish in an elementary public school that has included Spanish as a foreign language in its syllabus since 2000. Beliefs are seen as socially historical and political products, connected to the broad sociopolitical contexts (BARCELOS; KALAJA, 2011). Results suggest that the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language in that school seems to be discursively an artifice to maintain the social stratification and the status quo [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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O presente artigo tem como objetivo apresentar e discutir os resultados de parte de uma pesquisa empírica levada a cabo em 2008 com alunos de espanhol de um dos Centros de Estudos de Línguas mantido pelo governo estadual de São Paulo. Tínhamos como meta conhecer e mensurar, até onde fosse possível, o nível de motivação dos alunos em sala de aula, assim como as suas principais causas. Uma vez que tais Centros são, no momento, os responsáveis em São Paulo pela aplicação da lei que torna obrigatória a oferta de língua espanhola nas escolas de nível médio do país (no que se refere à escola pública estadual), consideramos pertinente divulgar tais resultados, de forma que as discussões suscitadas por eles possam contribuir para um ensino de línguas mais motivador e, portanto, mais eficiente. A pesquisa, de cunho quantitativo e qualitativo, contou com 161 alunos informantes. Os principais resultados apontaram que i) os estudantes em geral encontram-se motivados durante as aulas de espanhol; ii) a figura do professor, o esforço depreendido, o conteúdo, a autonomia de escolha do idioma estudado e o prazer que têm em aprender a LE foram as principais causas de motivação apresentadas; iii) a falta de conhecimento sobre aspectos culturais da língua alvo foi apontada como uma das principais causas de desmotivação; iv) as atividades descritas como mais motivadoras foram, pela ordem, jogos e brincadeiras, vídeos/filmes e músicas; v) as atividades consideradas menos motivadoras foram seminário, prova oral/chamada oral e redação.The objective of this paper is to present and discuss the results of an empirical survey that took place in 2008 involving students of Spanish from a Center of Foreign Languages Studies (Centros de Estudos de Línguas) sponsored by the State of São Paulo. The goal of the survey was to understand and measure, as far as possible, the degree of student´s motivation in the classroom as well as its underlying causes. Taking into account that until now these Centers are responsible to enforce the law that made mandatory the teaching of Spanish for high school students (as far as public schools in the State are concerned), we considered appropriate to publish these results so that the debate engendered by it could contribute to a motivating, and therefore more efficient, foreign language education. The survey, that included quantitative and qualitative information, was based on a sample of 161 students. The results suggested that i) the students were motivated during Spanish classes; ii) the main causes of motivation reported by students were the professor´s personality, the effort put in practice, the content , the autonomy in the choice of the language and the pleasure related to learning a foreign language; iii) one of the main causes of demotivation appointed by the survey was the absence of knowledge about cultural aspects related to the language being studied; iv) the activities described as the most motivating were, in this sequence, games and amusing activities, videos/films and songs; v) the activities considered the least motivating were seminars, oral exams/tests and composition.

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Este trabalho apresenta uma análise gerativa de clíticos de Caso acusativo envolvidos em construções de reduplicação em espanhol. Demonstrará que este tipo de clítico não constitui um elemento único, e, sim, que pode ser dividido em dois grupos, o dos anafóricos e o dos dêiticos. Enquanto os primeiros foram analisados em trabalhos anteriores, como o de Jaeggli (1982, 1986b), a ocorrência dos últimos pode estar vinculada à expressão de um foco in situ. Esta análise encontra um paralelo em Suñer (1995), que trata a concordância negativa como um fenômeno de polaridade, já que este trabalho revela uma correlação entre a realização sintática de palavras negativas em polaridade negativa e o licenciamento de um clítico que duplica um SN focalizado.This paper presents a generative analysis of accusative clitics involved in clitic-doubling constructions in Spanish. It will be shown that this kind of clitic does not constitute a single unitary element, but must be classified in two types, the anaphoric one and the deictic one. Whereas the former have been analyzed in early works such as Jaeggli (1982, 1986b), the occurrence of the latter may be related to the focalization of a constituent in situ. This analysis parallels with Suñer (1995), treating negative concord as a polarity phenomena, once the present work reveals a correlation between the syntactic realization of negative words in negative polarity and the realization of a clitic doubling a focused NP.

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