The acceptability of the pre-verbal bare singular in Brazilian Portuguese

Autor:	Raíssa Silva Santana, Elaine Grolla
Jazyk:	portugalština
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Singular nu pré-verbal foco contrastivo genericidade tarefa de julgamento de aceitabilidade Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
Zdroj:	Revista Linguística, Vol 14, Iss 2, Pp 194-214 (2018)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1808-835X 2238-975X
DOI:	10.31513/linguistica.2018.v14n2a17532
Popis:	Our research investigates the judgements of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) native speakers with respect to preverbal bare singulars, considering the proposal that pragmatic factors such as contrastive focus might improve the acceptability of the constructions headed by this nominal. In an Acceptability Judgment Task, 20 native speakers of BP judged constructions with preverbal bare singulars within: i) generic sentences; ii) kind-predicate sentences; iii) stage-level predicate sentences. The results suggest that contrastive focus might interfere with the acceptability of these constructions, and that sentences with kind-predicates are grammatical in BP. Sentences with stage-level predicates received low rates of acceptance.
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