Constructional approach of subject-verb order as a focusing strategy in Brazilian Portuguese

Autor: Roberto de Freitas Junior, Priscilla Mouta Marques
Jazyk: portugalština
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Revista Linguística, Vol 16, Iss Esp., Pp 680-700 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1808-835X
2238-975X
DOI: 10.31513/linguistica.2020.v16nEsp.a22563
Popis: In the present work, we present the first results of an ongoing research that aims to map the synchronous configuration of part of the focus construction network in Brazilian Portuguese. Thus, from the theoretical-methodological assumptions of Usage-based Functional Linguistics (LFCU), we seek to describe the formal and functional characteristics of active and passive constructions licensed by the schema [(X) VSN]FOC, and represented, respectively, by the pairings [(X) VSN]ATV and [(X) VAUXVPPSN]]PAS. Although these constructions present similarities on form, concerning focalization they differ from each other: active constructions tend to present the NP focused, instead of the role sentence as we could attest most frequently in passive ones.
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