The expressibility of modality in representational complement clauses in Brazilian Portuguese

Autor: Bastos, Sandra D. Gasparini, Galvão, Vânia C. Casseb, Gonçalves, Sebastião Carlos L., Hattnher, Marize M. Dalli Aglio, Hengeveld, Kess, Gisele Cássia Sousa, Vendrame, Valéria
Přispěvatelé: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA)
Jazyk: portugalština
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: ALFA: Revista de Linguística
Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
instacron:UNESP
Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"
ISSN: 1981-5794
Popis: Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-24T19:54:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007Bitstream added on 2014-06-25T11:47:57Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ISSN1981-5794-2007-51-2-189-212.pdf: 99705 bytes, checksum: 15686c1a8e56c54a8eb250fe5b132e3f (MD5) This paper deals with the (im)possibility of expressing a variety of modal categories within the context of the layering approach to complementation in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG).Our hypothesis is that modal expressions in complement clauses only pertain to operator or modifier classes of the highest layer relevant for that type of embedded construction and for all lower levels. In order to test this hypothesis, occurrences of complement clauses in two databases of spoken Brazilian Portuguese are analyzed. The investigation of this hypothesis is restricted to representational complement clauses. UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista/São José do Rio Preto - SP UFG - Universidade Federal de Goiás/Goiânia - GO UvA - Universiteit van Amsterdam/Amsterdam - The Netherlands UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista/São José do Rio Preto - SP
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