Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa
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description: Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 'Portuguese Philology and Linguistics', active since 1997, publishes philological and linguistic studies focused on Portuguese, with a view to contributing to the investigation on languages in general. Some of the areas covered in previously published materials are textual criticism, paleography, codicology, diplomatic, historical linguistics, grammar, rethoric, discourse analysis and linguistic historiography. The journal offers all articles in open access with no charges, and is indexed in nine scholarly databases. Read more about our editorial policies and about how to submit an article.
publisher: Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
language: en
publication name: Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa
issn: 2176-9419
copyright: Copyright is transferred to the journal for the online publication, with free access, and for the printing in paper documents. Copyright may be preserved for authors who wish to republish their work in collections.
items: Variation in Portuguese: Exploring the case of ditransitive verbs with Nanosyntax
items: The use of large language models for the annotation of discourse relations and its means of signalling: an empirical test
items: Brazilian grammars of the second half of the 20th century and their horizons of retrospection: the question of pleonasm
items: Acronyms and initialisms in play: neological dynamics of compositional processes in Brazilian Portuguese League of Legends
items: Presentation
items: Forms of address in Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural speech: reconfiguring dynamics of power and solidarity through the translation process
items: Alternation and restriction in French adverbial ‘-ant’ constructions: a syntactic-aspectual account
items: Ordering 2nd and 3rd conjugation verbs in Spanish through the imperfective
items: Counting roots: an analysis of Portuguese cardinal numbersfrom the perspective of Distributed Morphology
items: "The selection of this subject to write an interesting paper" - a study on non-deverbal complex event nominals
items: On the trail of ‘tomara (que)’ from the 13th to the 20th century: from grammaticalized construction to interjection
items: Structural challenges of diminutive light verb 'dar' constructions: Revisiting Scher (2004), Medeiros (2008, 2010) and Alves (2016, 2022)
items: A metaphorical study of the terminological repertoire of the Maranhão religious manifestation Tambor de Mina
items: Once upon a time… Direct speech in children’s writing
items: Notes for the study of the documentary typology ofinquisitorial manuscripts
items: Neighborhood names: a study on the historical formation of the toponymy of the City of Belo Horizonte (1897-1961)
items: I know what you did last summer: a discursive analysis of a particitation in Brazilian politics
items: Superscript characters abbreviations in eighteenth-century letters
items: Voiceless variants of the coronal /s/ in barrodurense speech: an analysis of linguistic conditioners
items: The Crónica do Xarife Mulei Mahamet as a Source for Linguistic Research on Classical Portuguese: an Exploratory Study
items: Apresentação: Estudos em Fonética e Fonologia
items: Apresentação
items: The functional status of prepositional phrases of the verbs ‘ir’ and ‘morar’: adjunct or complement?
items: The diplomatic study of manuscripts from and about women in Portuguese America:letters, responses and informations
items: Restructuring of obstruent-liquid clusters
items: Foreword
items: Brazilian Portuguese external sandhi: elision, diphthongization and coalescence
items: Oral stressed vowels of the Príncipe Kabuverdianu: a phonetic analysis
items: Referential processes in the light of accessibility theory in the critical-genetic edition of the short story ‘Os caminhos’ by Moreira Campos
items: Do production and perception walk together? A comparative study between production and perception of neutral yes no questions in Brazilian Portuguese

Variation in Portuguese: Exploring the case of ditransitive verbs with Nanosyntax
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description: This paper presents a very introductory analysis of variation in the expression of the Dative case and in constructions with ditransitive verbs across different varieties of Portuguese. To do so, it employs a novel theoretical framework for handling this type of data: Nanosyntax. The article begins by justifying the interest in the Dative case and by introducing the origins and contexts in which the different varieties of Portuguese examined here arise and are used. Both for data collection and for the construction of the theoretical framework, exploratory and bibliographic research methodologies are used. Thus, nanosyntactic proposals that deal with the representation of morphological cases and prepositions in different languages are revisited, and the data that will serve as the basis for the initial analyses are presented. The corpus of analysis includes, specifically, five varieties of Portuguese: European Portuguese, Angolan Portuguese, Mozambican Portuguese, Standard Brazilian Portuguese, and Popular/Afro-Brazilian Portuguese. As a result of this preliminary research, some possible generalizations are proposed regarding the distribution of the Double Object Construction (DOC) and the different prepositions that express the Dative in Portuguese. The paper concludes by raising a few questions that remain unanswered and pointing to possible developments for future work.
subject: Papers
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subject: Variation
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subject: Dative
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subject: DOC
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subject: Prepositions
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subject: Nanosyntax
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subject: Descriptive and linguistics analysis
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creator: Valdilena Rammé
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Valdilena Rammé https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-30
publication date: 2025-12-30
ending page: 243188
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v27i2e-243188

The use of large language models for the annotation of discourse relations and its means of signalling: an empirical test
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description: This study investigates the use of large language models (LLMs) for the identification of rhetorical relations and the signalling means that enable their recognition. Grounded in Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), which conceives text as a network of functional relations between discourse units, the research evaluates the potential of artificial intelligence tools for the automatic annotation of discourse corpora. The methodology consisted of reapplying to ChatGPT ten excerpts from a spoken language corpus administered to university professors in a previous investigation, keeping the same questions regarding the identification of discourse relations and the cues that signal such relations. The results reveal that, in seven out of ten cases, ChatGPT produced analyses coinciding with those of the previous paper, employing labels established in RST and justifying them on the basis of semantic, formal, and pragmatic signals. In the remaining three cases, although divergent, the model’s responses proved theoretically plausible. It is concluded that ChatGPT demonstrates satisfactory performance in the identification of discourse relations, presenting itself as a promising tool for the automatic annotation of corpora, provided that its analyses are validated by human experts.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: RST
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subject: Large Language Models
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subject: Discourse relations
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subject: Automatic annotation
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subject: ChatGPT
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subject: Functionalism
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creator: Juliano Desiderato Antonio
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Juliano Desiderato Antonio https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-05-08
publication date: 2026-05-08
ending page: 240890
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v28i1e-240890

Brazilian grammars of the second half of the 20th century and their horizons of retrospection: the question of pleonasm
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description: In this text, drawing on the articulation between the History of Linguistic Ideas and Discourse Analysis, we analyze the ‘Moderna Gramática Portuguesa’ by Evanildo Bechara (1961) and the ‘Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo’ by Celso Cunha and Lindley Cintra (1985). Grammar is understood here as a linguistic instrument resulting from a process of grammatization (Auroux, 1992), which both prescribes and instrumentalizes the language. Based on the periodization of Brazilian grammatization by Guimarães (1996), our research coincides with the fourth period, characterized by the inclusion of Linguistics in the mandatory curriculum of Letters degrees and the creation of the first graduate programs in the field. The objective is to analyze the notion of pleonasm in these grammars and the examples associated with it. As a notion that generated divergence among grammarians of different periods, it provides a fertile ground to investigate concept of horizon of retrospection (Auroux, 1992) which posits that one knowledge is affiliated with another, the proximities, departures, and theoretical affiliations of these grammarians regarding the concept of pleonasmo.
subject: Papers
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subject: Grammar
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subject: Pleonasm
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subject: Linguistics Instrument
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subject: Horizon of retrospection
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subject: Examples
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subject: Discourse Analysis
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subject: History of Linguistic Ideas
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creator: Carlos Daniel Dias Rodrigues
creator: Rogério Modesto
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Carlos Daniel Dias Rodrigues, Rogério Modesto https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-04-07
publication date: 2026-04-07
ending page: 240968
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v28i1e-240968

Acronyms and initialisms in play: neological dynamics of compositional processes in Brazilian Portuguese League of Legends
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description: This paper analyzes the processes of initialism and acronym formation in Brazilian Portuguese based on lexical units originating from the digital gaming environment of League of Legends, with a focus on uses observed on social media, especially on the platform X. Grounded in theoretical frameworks from Neology, Lexicology, and Terminology, the study discusses how English-derived initialisms and acronyms — 'afk', 'mvp', 'aram', and 'mia' — undergo different degrees of formal, semantic, and pragmatic adaptation as they are incorporated into Brazilian Portuguese. The corpus consists of authentic occurrences collected between 2020 and 2023 from posts produced by Brazilian users, allowing for the observation of language in use in informal digital contexts. The analyses show that these units not only fulfill a function of discursive economy, but also display a high potential for lexicalization, morphosyntactic reclassification, and derivational processes. We argue that the use of initialisms and acronyms in gaming contexts reveals a productive neological dynamic, shaped by the interaction between terminological specialization, discursive expressiveness, and the sociocultural practices of gamer communities, thus contributing to the renewal of the contemporary Brazilian Portuguese lexicon.
subject: Papers
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subject: Neology
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subject: Initialisms
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subject: Acronyms
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subject: Lexicon
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subject: Brazilian Portuguese
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subject: Linguistics
  topic: disciplines
subject: Theory, Description and Analysis of Natural Languages
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subject: Lexical Studies
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creator: Marcelo Eduardo Rodrigues Okazaki
creator: Odair Luiz Nadin
rights: Copyright (c) 2026
date: 2026-05-30
publication date: 2026-05-30
ending page: 244626
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v28i1e-244626

Presentation
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description: Volume 27, no. 1, of the journal 'Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa' brings together eight articles addressing a range of topics, namely: philology, abbreviations, toponymy, terminology, discourse analysis, children’s writing, and phonology.
subject: Presentation
  topic: section
subject: Portuguese Philology and Linguistics
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creator: Sílvio de Almeida Toledo Neto
creator: Paulo Ângelo Araújo-Adriano
creator: Marcus Vinícius Moreira Martins
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sílvio de Almeida Toledo Neto, Paulo Ângelo Araújo-Adriano, Marcus Vinícius Moreira Martins https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-18
publication date: 2025-12-18
ending page: 243818
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v27i1e-243818

Forms of address in Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural speech: reconfiguring dynamics of power and solidarity through the translation process
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description: In this study, we aim at analyzing the forms of address employed in Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural speech, delivered on 8 May 2025, in its original version (Italian) and in its Portuguese translation. We assume that forms of address and politeness establish particular ways of approaching the recipient that reflect social conventions, marking relations of power and solidarity across different social contexts (Brown; Gilman, 1960; Biderman, 1972) and favoring the use of face-saving strategies (Goffman, 1967; Brown; Levinson, 1987). For the analysis, we employed the tagging system proposed by Frías Conde (2018, 2023), which enables the classification of forms of address at the morphosyntactic, pragmatic, and sociolinguistic levels, and we additionally applied an interpretive framework informed by the aforementioned theories. The results show that the use of forms of address contributes to constructing a combination of spiritual authority and pastoral closeness in Leo XIV’s discourse. Furthermore, we found that the strategies for translating the forms of address suggest pragmatic adaptations aimed at reaching the target reader, since these linguistic elements are motivated by factors related to the social characteristics of the interactants and the circumstances of the communicative event and, therefore, vary according to the context of use and the language employed.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: Forms of address
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subject: Religious discourse
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subject: Power
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subject: Solidaririty
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subject: Linguistics
  topic: disciplines
creator: Luizane Schneider
creator: Clarice Cristina Corbari
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Luizane Schneider, Clarice Cristina Corbari https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-05-12
publication date: 2026-05-12
ending page: 243683
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v28i1e-243683

Alternation and restriction in French adverbial ‘-ant’ constructions: a syntactic-aspectual account
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description: This article investigates the distribution of the ‘participe présent’ (Ppr) and the gérondif (Ger) in French adverbial ‘-ant’ constructions, with a focus on the phenomena of alternation and restriction between these two forms. The analysis combines a syntactic perspective — inspired by descriptions of adverbial clauses in Portuguese (cf. Lobo, 2003; 2006; 2013; Móia; Viotti, 2004) — with an aspectual approach grounded in lexical semantics (cf. Vendler, 1957; 1967; Comrie, 1976; Dowty, 1979; Smith, 1997, 2019; Rothstein, 2004). It is shown that the alternation between Ppr and Ger is not free, but simultaneously conditioned by the level of adjunction of the subordinate clause and by the aspectual nature of the predicate. The Ppr corresponds to peripheral constructions associated with readings of anteriority and non-intentional causality, whereas the Ger configures integrated constructions that favor interpretations of manner or simultaneity. The findings indicate that only achievement predicates allow alternation, while activities, states and accomplishments show systematic restrictions. The study concludes that the distinction between Ppr and Ger in adverbial contexts is grammatically encoded in French and results from the interaction between syntax and lexical aspect.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: Gerund
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subject: Gérondif
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subject: Participe présent
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subject: Formal Linguistics
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creator: Fernanda Cruzetta
creator: Patricia de Araújo Rodrigues
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Fernanda Cruzetta, Patricia Rodrigues https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-30
publication date: 2025-12-30
ending page: 243201
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v27i2e-243201

Ordering 2nd and 3rd conjugation verbs in Spanish through the imperfective
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description: The goal of this article is to order Spanish 2nd conjugation verbs (verbs with a theme vowel ‘-e’) with respect to 3rd conjugation verbs (with ‘-i’ as a theme vowel). I will argue for an ordering 1st-3rd-2nd for Spanish, and I will discuss which evidence we have with respect to whether 1st conjugation verbs (with ‘-a’ as the theme vowel) have the biggest or the smallest verbal exponents. The argumentation will lead me to differentiate two exponents for alternating vowel verbs, which are homophonous under certain phonological conditions.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: Theme Vowels
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subject: Inflection
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subject: Irregularity
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subject: Imperfective
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subject: Spanish
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subject: Description and linguistics analysis
  topic: disciplines
subject: Nanosyntax
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creator: Antonio Fábregas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Antonio Fábregas https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-27
publication date: 2025-12-27
ending page: 237336
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v27i2e-237336

Counting roots: an analysis of Portuguese cardinal numbersfrom the perspective of Distributed Morphology
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description: This article proposes an analysis of the derivation of cardinal numerals in Portuguese from the perspective of Distributed Morphology and argues in favor of the semantic content of roots. Based on the description of the data, the analysis maintains that the roots that form numerals have semantic content consisting of the cardinality they express. Thus, the meaning of derived words depends on the underspecified core meaning of the root and on the structure in which it is embedded. In Portuguese, numerals can function as arguments (“três é um número primo”) or as predicates (“Eu vi os dois meninos”). In this analysis, this contrast is explained by the categorization of the root, which may be carried out by a nominalizer or an adjectivizer. Both simple and complex numerals are analyzed. The former refers to those formed from a root and a categorizer (“nove, quarenta, cem”), whereas the latter refers to those formed by compounding (“dezesseis, duzentos”), coordination (“vinte e três”), and adjunction (“dois mil”). I propose that List 3 contains interpretive instructions for complex numerals that reflect encyclopedic knowledge about the functioning of the decimal system. Thus, restrictions on root selection are explained in terms of the semantic content of the root and encyclopedic knowledge.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: Numeral
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subject: Distributed Morphology
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subject: Semantics
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subject: Root
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subject: Description and linguistics analysis
  topic: disciplines
subject: Morphosyntax
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subject: Linguistics
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subject: Semantics
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creator: Juliana Vignado
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Juliana Vignado https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-24
publication date: 2025-12-24
ending page: 242890
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v27i2e-242890

"The selection of this subject to write an interesting paper" - a study on non-deverbal complex event nominals
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description: The aim of this paper is to propose a compositional and detailed analysis of the internal structure of nominal forms with eventive meaning in Portuguese, following Medeiros (2024). Of particular interest for this study are nominals that, by morphological criteria, are not deverbal, and yet pass the tests that identify the so-called complex event nominals (Grimshaw, 1990; Borer, 2013). Examples include nouns such as ‘seleção’ (‘selection’), which derives the verb ‘selecionar’ (‘to select’), and ‘captura’ (‘capture’), which derives the verb ‘capturar’ (‘to capture’). We will propose here that such nominal forms lack an internal verbal (or adjectival) layer, and that the nominalizer itself (little n; Marantz, 1999) may be interpreted as introducing the event reading, depending on the elements syntactically combined with it (Marantz, 2013; Medeiros, 2024).
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: Nominalizations
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subject: Allosemy
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subject: Event Structure
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subject: Arguments
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subject: Description and linguistics analysis
  topic: disciplines
subject: Syntax
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subject: Morphology
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creator: Alessandro Boechat de Medeiros
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Alessandro Boechat de Medeiros https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-27
publication date: 2025-12-27
ending page: 242610
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v27i2e-242610

On the trail of ‘tomara (que)’ from the 13th to the 20th century: from grammaticalized construction to interjection
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description: Through data analysis from the 13th to the 20th century, available in the ‘Corpus do Português’ database, we deal with the construction ‘tomara (que)’ linked to four parallel processes that led it to the expression of desire in Portuguese: (i) expansion of semantic fields; (ii) expression of irrealis modality (through the conjunctive, conditional and volitive values); (iii) paradigmatic narrowing to the first person and (iv) selection of an inalienable argument or one referring to a state of affairs. Theoretically, we looked for classifications of ‘tomara’ in the grammatical literature and based ourselves on postulates in a constructionist approach, as the form-function pairing, which is essential for understanding the route from the grammaticalized construction ‘tomara (que)’ to the interjection. We considered 956 data, observing that the construction began to be used from the 16th century onward, with the meaning of desire, although there are a few earlier modal uses. At the same time, we observed uses of ‘tomara’ predominantly in the first-person postposed, in addition to a greater incidence of an inalienable internal argument or referring to a state of affairs in recent centuries. Semantic spreading, modal value, paradigmatic narrowing and metaphorization contribute to the grammaticalization of the structure, although the argument selection typical of more distant uses persists, that means the construction continues to select a sentence object, until it becomes an interjection itself.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: Tomara (que)
  topic: keywords
subject: Construction
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subject: Change
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subject: Interjection
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subject: Historical Linguistics
  topic: disciplines
subject: Construction grammar
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subject: Functionalism
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creator: Márluce Coan
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Márluce Coan https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-01-30
publication date: 2026-01-30
ending page: 240389
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v28i1e-240389

Structural challenges of diminutive light verb 'dar' constructions: Revisiting Scher (2004), Medeiros (2008, 2010) and Alves (2016, 2022)
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description: This paper analyzes light verb constructions (LVCs) with ‘dar’ (‘give’) in Brazilian Portuguese that display a diminutive effect (e.g., “dar uma olhada” ‘to have a look’). Within the framework of Distributed Morphology, this work critically reviews the proposals in Scher (2004), Medeiros (2008), and Alves (2016, 2022), arguing that the formalization of diminutivization and its structural limits still lack a full explanation. To address part of this issue, a new structure for the ‘–da’ nominalizations is proposed, arguing that they do not have participial nature, given that they reject its irregular allomorphy (e.g., “dar uma abrida/*aberta”). The analysis also demonstrates that the diminutive effect does not appear to be inherent to these nominalizations but rather seems to depend on the establishment of the LVC with ‘dar’. Additionally, the requirement of the indefinite article for the diminutive reading is contested, showing that the effect persists even with definite determiners. Finally, the study concludes from the literature review that the production of diminutivization must depend on the interaction between the light verb and its complement noun, indicating the need for approaches that integrate these elements to capture the scope and restrictions of these constructions with a diminutive interpretation.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: Diminutive construction
  topic: keywords
subject: Diminutivization
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subject: Light verb construction
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subject: Nominalization
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subject: Distributed Morphology
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subject: Morphosyntax
  topic: disciplines
creator: Vinícius Vieira Cabral
creator: Ana Paula Scher
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Vinícius Vieira Cabral, Ana Paula Scher https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-24
publication date: 2025-12-24
ending page: 241191
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v27i2e-241191

A metaphorical study of the terminological repertoire of the Maranhão religious manifestation Tambor de Mina
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description: This study aims to analyze the terminological metaphors of the Maranhão religious manifestation Tambor de Mina. In this regard, works in the field of Tambor de Mina were used as a basis, especially the works of Ferretti (2012; 2025); in the field of Terminology, based on the Communicative Theory of Terminology (TCT) by Cabré (1995, 1999); and in the field of metaphor, the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (TMC) by Lakoff and Johnson (1980). As methodological procedures, scientific works related to Tambor de Mina practiced in Maranhão and the Tambor de Mina Glossary were selected. For analysis, the following metaphorical terms were chosen: ‘to lower’, ‘to fall into the mine’, ‘factory’, ‘jewel’, and ‘to pull’. Based on the analyses, it was possible to observe that metaphor, as a fundamental cognitive mechanism, serves as a powerful tool in constructing meanings across various cultural contexts. In the world of Tambor de Mina in São Luís, the language—rich in symbolism and tradition—is permeated by metaphors that shape the understanding of religious and social concepts, connecting the sacred, the natural, and the human.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: Metaphor
  topic: keywords
subject: Terminology
  topic: keywords
subject: Tambor de Mina
  topic: keywords
subject: Letters
  topic: disciplines
subject: Linguistics
  topic: disciplines
creator: Theciana Silveira
creator: Henrique Adriano Moraes Lima
creator: Laís de Paula Freitas Carvalhêdo
creator: Laize Oliveira Ferreira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Theciana Silveira, Henrique Adriano Moraes Lima, Laís de Paula Freitas Carvalhêdo, Laize Oliveira Ferreira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-18
publication date: 2025-12-18
ending page: 234998
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v27i1e-234998

Once upon a time… Direct speech in children’s writing
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description: Based on Authier Revuz’s (2004) reflections on enunciative heterogeneity, this study proposes an exploratory analysis of direct discourse (dd), highlighting the way in which children, in the acquisition of writing, represent different voices in their narratives. The overall objective is to investigate the emergence of DD in children’s writing. This objective was developed into the following specific objectives: (i) to verify whether children use and graphically indicate dd; if so, (ii) to investigate how this marking is performed; and, finally, (iii) to identify possible regularities and variations in the way children register different voices present in their narrative texts. The study, interpretive in nature, adopts a descriptive approach that combines qualitative and quantitative methods. Forty-five texts written by elementary school children are analyzed, based on the proposal: “Narration of a suspense story”. The analysis indicates that children, at this stage of schooling, tend not to register, through DD, the voices that permeate their narratives; when this registration occurs, the child’s writing transitions between the creative use of unconventional marks and adherence to normative/prescriptive conventions.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: Children's writing
  topic: keywords
subject: Direct speech
  topic: keywords
subject: Shown heterogeneity
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subject: Narrative
  topic: keywords
subject: languages teaching-learning
  topic: disciplines
creator: Cristiane Carneiro Capristano
creator: Milena Machado Martins
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Milena Machado Martins, Cristiane Carneiro Capristano https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-12
publication date: 2025-12-12
ending page: 239397
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v27i1e-239397

Notes for the study of the documentary typology ofinquisitorial manuscripts
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description: In this article we present elements for studying the documental typology of a set of 93 autograph documents produced in the context of the activities of the Lisbon Inquisition, carried out in Bahia. This work aims to propose a glossary for the documental types identified in the collection under study, based on the glossary of documental species proposed by Bellotto (2008). The research is bibliographic in nature, based on the study of some documental species to establish the documental types into which they are divided within the scope of the activities of the Tribunal do Santo Ofício (Tribunal of the Holy Office) in Bahia, and descriptive, by characterizing the structure and functionality of the texts in order to identify their documentary species and establish their type. This proposal is justified by the scarcity of research that specifically considers the documental typology of inquisitorial manuscripts. Therefore, it is expected that this study will be an enlightening starting point for the development of other research that considers related texts.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: Inquisitorial manuscripts
  topic: keywords
subject: Documental species
  topic: keywords
subject: Documental type
  topic: keywords
subject: Philology
  topic: disciplines
subject: Textual typology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Rosana Carvalho Brito
creator: Zenaide de Oliveira Novais Carneiro
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Rosana Carvalho Brito, Zenaide de Oliveira Novais Carneiro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-09-17
publication date: 2025-09-17
ending page: 235061
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v27i1e-235061

Neighborhood names: a study on the historical formation of the toponymy of the City of Belo Horizonte (1897-1961)
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description: This study analyzed the historical formation of the inventory of 356 toponyms referring to neighborhood names of the City of Belo Horizonte attested between 1897 and 1961, taking as reference an adaptation of taxonomic model of Dick (1990b) and the principle-based approach of Cambraia and Seabra (2024, 2025). The hypothesis was tested that this formation followed the principles of structuring urban toponymy established by Cambraia and Seabra (2024, 2025) for the naming of basic public spaces (streets, avenues and squares) in the same location, which was partially confirmed by the data: there are similarities in relation to the principles of uniqueness, universality, limited extension, impersonality, morality, significance, legibility, relevance, topic relationship and semantic charge, but there are differences in relation to the principles of stability, legality, continuity, thematic unity, supletivity and anthropotoponymic vector.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: Historical Linguistics
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subject: Urban toponymy
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subject: Belo Horizonte
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subject: Historical Linguistics
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subject: Urban toponymy
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creator: César Nardelli Cambraia
creator: Lucas Cristino Drumond
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 César Nardelli Cambraia, Lucas Cristino Drumond https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-08-11
publication date: 2025-08-11
ending page: 235311
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v27i1e-235311

I know what you did last summer: a discursive analysis of a particitation in Brazilian politics
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description: In this study, we aim to investigate the discursive functioning of the statement “I know what you did last summer”, which has circulated within the Brazilian political scene in recent years. The theoretical framework employed is based on French Discourse Analysis, with a particular focus on the concepts of aphorising enunciation. The corpus consists of excerpts from print, television, and digital media in which the statement and its potential variations appear. Given that, in the corpus, occurrences of the statement are not introduced by verb dicendi and its interpretation requires the activation of a thesaurus, the reason why we argue that it corresponds to a particitation. From a classificatory standpoint, the analyzed utterance does not fit into any of the canonical particitation families.
subject: Papers
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subject: Aphorising enunciation
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subject: Political discourse
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subject: French Discourse Analysis
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subject: Particitation
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subject: Linguistics
  topic: disciplines
subject: Discourse analysis
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subject: Aphorising enunciation
  topic: disciplines
creator: Luís Rodolfo Cabral
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Luís Rodolfo Cabral https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-08-28
publication date: 2025-08-28
ending page: 235802
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v27i1e-235802

Superscript characters abbreviations in eighteenth-century letters
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description: The abbreviations by superscript letters in 18th century Portuguese are analyzed, with the aim of finding consistent uses by the copyist of abbreviation strategies by superscription. The hypothesis tested is that there are patterns when abbreviating a lexical item, and that the choices made by the copyist regarding the letters that are selected to be overwritten, as well as their quantity, are not random. The corpus used is the Manuscript PBA-749 from the National Library of Portugal, which title is Primeiro copiador das respostas dos senhores governadores desta capitania [minas gerais] às ordens de s[u]a mag[esta]de, e contas que lhe dãoão que principia no governo do sen[h]or Antonio de Albuquerque Coelho de Carvalho. Based on an exhaustive vocabulary of the abbreviations in the document, we selected the 3,793 occurrences of suspension abbreviations. Then, using the theoretical-methodological framework of René Pellén (2005), we examined all the occurrences in depth, looking for rules that could be generalized, thus helping us to better understand not only the brachygraphic system of the time, but also the 18th century Portuguese language. We conclude that abbreviations by superscript letters are not done arbitrarily, and that there are recurring norms and formulas that can be quantified and given generalizing qualitative analyses.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: Abbreviations
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subject: 18th century Portuguese
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subject: Manuscript PBA-479 (National Library of Portugal)
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subject: Philology
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subject: Paleography
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subject: Letters and Linguistics
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subject: Textual Criticism
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creator: Aléxia Teles Guimarães
creator: Christiane Benones de Oliveira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Aléxia Teles Guimarães, Christiane Benones de Oliveira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-07-23
publication date: 2025-07-23
ending page: 234881
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v27i1e-234881

Voiceless variants of the coronal /s/ in barrodurense speech: an analysis of linguistic conditioners
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description: This article investigates the palatalization of /S/ in coda position, offering a sociolinguistic analysis of the phenomenon. This study is grounded in Variation Theory, drawing primarily on Labov (1972), Weinreich, Labov and Herzog (2006), and Mollica (2021). Phonological description of the relevant variants follows Autosegmental Phonology with an emphasis on Feature Geometry (Clements; Hume 1995), while the treatment of /S/ palatalization is informed by Brescancini (1996), Scherre and Macedo (2000), Hora (2016), Lima (2017), and Cunha and Sales (2020). The corpus comprises 1,118 tokens of the variants [s] and [ʃ], gathered through recorded individual interviews and a word-list reading task with 16 participants. Data were statistically analyzed using ‘GoldVarb X’. Results indicate that palatalization of /S/ is chiefly conditioned by a following coronal /t/. Other factors also reached statistical significance—medial coda, disyllabic words, pretonic position, labial vowels, and dorsal vowels—although their apparent effects seem to stem from interference by the aforementioned following context.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: /S/ palatalization
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subject: Linguistic conditioning factors
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subject: Variation Theory
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subject: Barro Duro (PI) dialect
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subject: Sociolinguistics
  topic: disciplines
creator: Carliane Barbosa dos Santos Silva
creator: Ailma do Nascimento Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Carliane Barbosa dos Santos Silva, Ailma do Nascimento Silva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-07-17
publication date: 2025-07-17
ending page: 233978
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v27i1e-233978

The Crónica do Xarife Mulei Mahamet as a Source for Linguistic Research on Classical Portuguese: an Exploratory Study
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description: This article analyses linguistic variation in three witnesses (M, L1, and E) of the Crónica do Xarife Mulei Mahamet e d’el-Rey D. Sebastião (CXMM), a historiographical text from the late 16th century. The study is part of the Projeto Sebástica Manuscrita (PSM), which aims, among other objectives, to create a corpus for the study of Classical Portuguese (Pt-Cl). The analysis revealed both phenomena already documented in historical linguistics literature and potential new directions for studying linguistic change in Pt-Cl. The results suggest that CXMM, due to the breadth of linguistic variation observed, is a suitable source for diachronic studies. Regarding the characterization of the witnesses, the study confirmed that the older witnesses (M and L1) preserve more archaic linguistic features, while the most recent witness (E) innovates in most of the aspects analysed. Furthermore, the systematic presence of Castilianisms in M supports hypotheses about its copying context, as proposed in Lombardo (2025). This study thus reinforces the relevance of the corpus envisioned by PSM in deepening our understanding of linguistic change in Pt-Cl, highlighting the need for analyses that integrate both variant and non-variant readings.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: Crónica do Xarife Mulei Mahamet e d’El-Rey D. Sebastião
  topic: keywords
subject: Classical Portuguese
  topic: keywords
subject: History of the Portuguese Language
  topic: keywords
subject: Variants analysis
  topic: keywords
subject: Historical Linguistics
  topic: keywords
subject: Historical Linguistics
  topic: disciplines
subject: History of the Portuguese Language
  topic: disciplines
subject: Textual criticism
  topic: disciplines
creator: Elena Lombardo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Elena Lombardo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-07-14
publication date: 2025-07-14
ending page: 234256
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v27i1e-234256

Apresentação: Estudos em Fonética e Fonologia
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description: O volume 26, número 2, da revista Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa apresenta um conjunto de onze trabalhos que abordam temas concernentes à área de Fonética e Fonologia. Trata-se de um volume temático que abrange, em sua grande maioria, artigos que são frutos de trabalhos apresentados no V Encontro Intermediário do Grupo de Trabalho (GT) de Fonética e Fonologia da Associação Nacional de Pós-graduação e Pesquisa em Letras e Linguística (ANPOLL), realizado na Universidade de São Paulo (USP), em São Paulo (SP), nos dias 06 e 07 de dezembro de 2022, e no Encontro do GT de Fonética e Fonologia realizado no âmbito do 37o Encontro Nacional da ANPOLL (37o ENANPOLL), no período de 03 a 05 de outubro de 2023, na Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), em Niterói (RJ). Os organizadores do volume são Ronaldo Mangueira Lima Júnior (UnB - Universidade de Brasília) e Flaviane Romani Fernandes Svartman (USP - Universidade de São Paulo), respectivamente, coordenador e vice-coordenadora do já referido GT no período de realização dos eventos mencionados. Os trabalhos do presente volume versam sobre temáticas diversas da área de fonética e fonologia do português e de línguas em contato e de línguas estrangeiras adquiridas como língua adicional por falantes nativos do português brasileiro, tais como: aspectos segmentais e suprassegmentais de variedades brasileiras e de línguas africanas em contato com o português, processos fonológicos do português brasileiro, relação entre fonologia e ortografia em português brasileiro, questões de produção e percepção na aquisição de língua estrangeira por falantes nativos de português brasileiro e aspectos fonético-fonológicos, de natureza segmental e suprassegmental, da fala atípica em português brasileiro. Tais trabalhos são uma amostra representativa do estado da arte dos estudos em fonética e fonologia realizados no Brasil e estão dispostos, neste volume, na ordem especificada a seguir.
subject: Presentation
  topic: section
subject: Filologia e linguística portuguesa
  topic: keywords
creator: Ronaldo Mangueira Lima Júnior
creator: Flaviane Romani Fernandes Svartman
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Ronaldo Mangueira Lima Júnior, Flaviane Romani Fernandes Svartman https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-31
publication date: 2024-12-31
starting page: 179
ending page: 182
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v26i2p179-182

Apresentação
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description: O volume 26, n.º 1, da revista Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa reúne artigos sobre diferentes temáticas, tais como filologia, crítica textual, análise do discurso, fonologia, funções sintáticas e linguística histórica. Abre-se o volume com o artigo intitulado O estudo diplomático de manuscritos de e sobre mulheres na América Portuguesa: cartas, respostas e informações. As autoras Beatriz de Freitas Cardenete, Elisa Hardt Leitão Motta e Vanessa Martins do Monte fazem uma análise diplomática de cartas, respostas e informações, datadas do séc. XVIII ao séc. XIX e redigidas na América Portuguesa. Nas cartas, escritas por mulheres, as respostas e as informações vêm anexadas a requerimentos movidos por mulheres. Embora os textos estudados tenham estruturas semelhantes, um exame diplomático atento leva as autoras a concluir que se trata de documentos de tipologias distintas. Em Os processos referenciais à luz da Teoria da Acessibilidade na edição crítico-genética do conto Os caminhos de Moreira Campos, os autores Claudeirton Madeira Castelo e Luiz Eleildo Pereira Alves propõem uma interface teórica entre linguística textual e filologia textual. Os autores têm como objetivo investigar os processos referenciais nos manuscritos de uma edição crítico-genética de Moreira Campos e suas implicações na construção de sentido do texto. O terceiro artigo do volume intitula-se A exclusão na escrita de si: o discurso jurídico em cartas de adolescentes privados de liberdade, da autoria de Fernando Miranda Arraz e Daniella Lopes Dias Ignácio Rodrigues. Os autores têm como objetivo compreender como a exclusão se manifesta discursivamente no processo de subjetivação. Estudam-se, para esse fim, cartas de adolescentes privados de liberdade, endereçadas a familiares. Sob o título A aparente ausência de vogais postônicas mediais na variedade de São Carlos (SP), Tiago Pereira Rodrigues e Pablo Arantes apresentam um estudo em que identificam possíveis fatores favorecedores da aparente ausênci…
subject: Presentation
  topic: section
subject: Portuguese Philology and Linguistics
  topic: keywords
subject: Letters and Linguistics
  topic: disciplines
creator: Sílvio de Almeida Toledo Neto
creator: Maria Clara Paixão de Sousa
creator: Paulo Ângelo Araújo-Adriano
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Sílvio de Almeida Toledo Neto, Maria Clara Paixão de Sousa, Paulo Ângelo Araújo-Adriano https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-17
publication date: 2024-12-17
starting page: 7
ending page: 8
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v26i1p7-8

The functional status of prepositional phrases of the verbs ‘ir’ and ‘morar’: adjunct or complement?
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description: The article takes up the traditional discussion on the distinction between the functions of adjunct and complement, verifying which is the appropriate analysis for the prepositional phrases that appear with the verbs ‘ir’ (to go) and ‘morar’ (to live). We initially present some elements of Apollonio Discolo’s analysis of transitivity through the notion of verbal diathesis and show that indecision about the function of these phrases is present in French, Portuguese and Brazilian grammatical traditions. We identified the difficulty of analysis in the fact that these phrases express locative content, which is not compatible with the proposed analysis of transitive diathesis according to Apollonio Discolo. This view was favored by the Latin adaptation of the Apollonian term ‘hypokeímenón’ as object. Finally, we defend the proposal, based on the notions of function (or predicate) and argument of Frege (2013 [1879]), that these prepositional phrases are arguments capable of saturating a predicate and that they should be analyzed as indirect complements of the verbs ‘ir’ (to go) and ‘morar’ (to live).
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: tradicional nomenclature
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subject: adjunct and complement
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subject: transitivity
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subject: locative
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subject: predicate logic
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subject: Linguistic Historiography
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subject: Portuguese gramaticography
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subject: predicate lógic
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creator: Lorenzo Vitral
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Lorenzo Vitral https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-17
publication date: 2024-12-17
starting page: 133
ending page: 147
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v26i1p133-147

The diplomatic study of manuscripts from and about women in Portuguese America:letters, responses and informations
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description: This article delves into a diplomatic analysis of three documentary species: letters, responses, and information, penned between the mid-18th and early 19th centuries in Portuguese America. While the letters originated from women, the responses and information were attached to petitions filed by women. Despite sharing similar structural elements, a diplomatic examination reveals that these documents belong to distinct typologies. Our study engages with the works of Cardenete (2023), Carvalho (2020), Monte (2015), Tognoli (2014), and Tin (2005), aligning with the approach of Contemporary Diplomatics (Duranti, 1991). We conclude that a thorough document critique necessitates a meticulous examination of the original manuscripts, scrutinizing both their textual structure and materiality.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: Philology
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subject: Diplomatic
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subject: Letters
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subject: Responses
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subject: Informations
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subject: Portuguese Philology
  topic: disciplines
subject: diplomatic
  topic: disciplines
subject: epistolography
  topic: disciplines
creator: Beatriz de Freitas Cardenete
creator: Elisa Hardt Leitão Motta
creator: Vanessa Martins do Monte
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Elisa Hardt Leitão Motta, Beatriz de Freitas Cardenete, Vanessa Martins do Monte https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-17
publication date: 2024-12-17
starting page: 9
ending page: 27
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v26i1p9-27

Restructuring of obstruent-liquid clusters
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description: In Portuguese, CCV syllables form obstruent-liquid clusters and can be optionally restructured by (1) inserting a vowel between the onset consonants, resulting in CV.CV, or (2) deleting the liquid consonant in the second position, resulting in CV, cases that were evaluated separately in previous studies. This study presents an integrated evaluation of the CCV~CV.CV~CV alternation in Brazilian Portuguese, based on acoustic analysis of CCV occurrences in spontaneous speech recordings from 22 native speakers. We sought to determine the role of linguistic factors, such as the position of the accent, as well as evaluate the quality of the epenthetic vowel and duration patterns resulting from consonant loss or vowel insertion. In terms of its quality, the supporting vowel is a centralized vowel, and there may be harmony with the following vowel. It was found that the CV pattern is more frequent in a non-accented context and leads to vowel lengthening, while the CV.CV pattern is more frequent in an accented context. The results are discussed in terms of the gradualness and dynamicity of the phenomenon and considering phonological principles of syllabic restructuring and onset formation.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: Consonantal cluster
  topic: keywords
subject: Epenthetic vowel
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subject: Brazilian Portuguese
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subject: Spontaneous speech
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subject: Usage-based models
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creator: Maria Mendes Cantoni
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Maria Mendes Cantoni https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-31
publication date: 2024-12-31
starting page: 183
ending page: 198
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v26i2p183-198

Foreword
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description: Apresentamos ao leitor interessado o volume 25, n.º 2, da revista Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa. Trata-se de um volume temático, centrado nos estudos da variação e mudança diatópica de variedades linguísticas praticadas no Brasil. Em um total de sete artigos, pesquisadores especialistas abordam temas como direitos linguísticos, toponímia, dialetologia e multilinguismo. São organizadores do volume Joachim Steffen (UNIA - Universität Augsburg), Marcelo Jacó Krug (UFFS - Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul), Manoel Mourivaldo Santiago Almeida (USP - Universidade de São Paulo), Maria Clara Paixão de Sousa (USP-Universidade de São Paulo) e Sílvio de Almeida Toledo Neto (USP - Universidade de São Paulo). O volume abre-se com o artigo intitulado Direitos linguísticos e cooficialização da língua alemã em São João do Oeste, Santa Catarina. Os autores Celina Eliane Frizzo, Elena Wendling Ruscheinsky e Marcelo Jacó Krug apresentam a Declaração Universal dos Direitos Linguísticos. Segundo o documento, falantes de línguas não oficiais em determinado território têm direito e estão livres para usá-las sem sofrer discriminação, exclusão e perseguição. Explicam-se questões referentes aos direitos linguísticos, ao linguicismo e ao linguicídio e relacionam-se esses tópicos com o processo de cooficialização da língua alemã em São João do Oeste - SC. No segundo artigo do volume, sob o título A toponímia italiana do Oeste de Santa Catarina: um estudo relacional dos nomes de lugares e a (i)migração, os autores Fernando Hélio Tavares de Barros e Marcelo Jacó Krug verificam marcas da identidade italiana na toponímia do Oeste de Santa Catarina, quanto a sua variação, mudança, manutenção e perda, durante a história de migração dos ítalo-gaúchos, um dos grupos povoadores da região. O estudo conclui que os sobrenomes e o catolicismo de devoção italiana são as características mais representativas dessa toponímia. Em A vitalidade linguística do talian em Riqueza/SC: dimensões e categorias …
subject: Presentation
  topic: section
subject: Filologia e linguística portuguesa
  topic: keywords
creator: Sílvio de Almeida Toledo Neto
creator: Manoel Mourivaldo Santiago-Almeida
creator: Maria Clara Paixão de Sousa
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Sílvio de Almeida Toledo Neto, Manoel Mourivaldo Santiago-Almeida, Maria Clara Paixão de Sousa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2023-12-27
publication date: 2023-12-27
starting page: 145
ending page: 146
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v25i2p145-146

Brazilian Portuguese external sandhi: elision, diphthongization and coalescence
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description: The study presents experimental results of a phonetic-acoustic analysis of the elision of the low vowel /a/ by external vowel sandhi in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) (BISOL, 1992). The research adopted the target sentence reading protocol described in Albano (2001) and Meneses (2016). Eight native BP speakers participated in the experiment. The [V1 ## V2] contact was controlled to inquiry the context favoring elision: unstressed low vowel /a/ at the end of a word followed by unstressed [i] or [u]. The word-boundary structure resulted in three production patterns: elision, decreasing diphthongs and coalescence. Coalescence is an innovative result regarding sandhi in BP, in which a vowel [e] or [o] emerges from the sequences /a##i/ or /a##u/. We defined as coalescence cases in which the vowel resulting from sandi presented a formant pattern of monophthongs with characteristics of the mid vowels [e] or [o]. In addition to interpreting the experimental results on vowel sandhi, we present a phonological analysis that (i) incorporates coalescence as a subprocess of elision and (ii) eliminates degemination as an external vowel sandhi process. The proposal reveals a system of phonological operations that is more economical and better adjusted to what is observed in phonetic productions.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: External sandhi
  topic: keywords
subject: Coalescence
  topic: keywords
subject: Elision
  topic: keywords
subject: Degemination
  topic: keywords
subject: Diphthogization
  topic: keywords
subject: Linguistics
  topic: disciplines
subject: Description and linguistics analysis
  topic: disciplines
creator: Magnun Rochel Madruga
creator: Guilherme Gonçalves
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Magnun Rochel Madruga, Guilherme Gonçalves https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-31
publication date: 2024-12-31
starting page: 261
ending page: 284
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v26i2p261-284

Oral stressed vowels of the Príncipe Kabuverdianu: a phonetic analysis
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description: With the Cape Verdean migration to São Tomé and Príncipe, which began in 1903, Kabuverdianu was taken to the Gulf of Guinea and became part of the region's linguistic ecology. Considering this scenario, this study focuses on Kabuverdianu from the island of Príncipe (KVP), presenting an acoustic phonetic description of the first (F1) and second formants (F2) and the duration that characterize the oral stressed vowels in this language. As corpora, we use data collected in Príncipe in 2018 with four speakers of Kabuverdianu as their mother tongue (Bandeira; Freitas, 2018). The data were analyzed using the Praat program (Boersma; Weenick, 2022). In tonic position, nine oral vowel phones were found ([i, e, ɛ, ə, ɐ, a, ɔ, o, u]), expanding the descriptions of Santiago’s kabuverdianu that mentioned only 2 central vowels. The behavior of mid vowels and central vowels suggests that acoustic dispersion is relevant in defining the language’s vowels. The middle vowels seem to be closer to each other (with the difference between F1 being 75 Hz for the front and 98 Hz for the back). This fact acoustically brings together the mid-high and mid-low vowels, since the two pairs ([e] and [ɛ], [o] and [ɔ]) become less dispersed in the acoustic space.
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: Kabuverdianu
  topic: keywords
subject: São Tomé and Príncipe
  topic: keywords
subject: Oral stressed vowels
  topic: keywords
subject: Acoustic description
  topic: keywords
subject: Linguistics
  topic: disciplines
subject: Contact between languages
  topic: disciplines
subject: Phonetics and Phonology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Shirley Freitas
creator: Amanda Macedo Balduino
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Shirley Freitas, Amanda Macedo Balduino https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-31
publication date: 2024-12-31
starting page: 285
ending page: 308
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v26i2p285-308

Referential processes in the light of accessibility theory in the critical-genetic edition of the short story ‘Os caminhos’ by Moreira Campos
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description: In this work, we propose a theoretical interface between textual linguistics and textual philology in terms of what Alves (2016, 2020) and Queiroz (2020) have already advocated. Our objective is to investigate the referential processes, in the light of the Accessibility Theory (Ariel, 2001), in the manuscripts of a critical-genetic edition of Moreira Campos and its implications in the construction of meaning of the text. These testimonies are the result of a collection of the Cearence writer of the Human Science library of the Federal University of Ceará and came to us edited from a previous research carried out by Lima (2016). We analyzed the editions and made clippings to demonstrate the occurrences of salience or opacity of the referents in Moreira Campos' creative path. The results showed that the suppression of referential expressions at each rewrite, a typical movement of the author's creative process, enriches the dynamics of textualization, since it brings to the text a game of meanings rich in inferential possibilities. This analysis strengthens our argument that the text is indeed a multisemiotic communicative event, of which the materialization process is only part of (Beaugrande, 1997).
subject: Papers
  topic: section
subject: Textual Philology
  topic: keywords
subject: Genetic criticism
  topic: keywords
subject: Accessibility Theory of Referents
  topic: keywords
subject: Referencing
  topic: keywords
subject: Moreira Campos
  topic: keywords
creator: Luis Eleildo Pereira Alves
creator: Claudeirton Madeira Castelo
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Claudeirton Madeira Castelo, Luis Eleildo P. Alves https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-17
publication date: 2024-12-17
starting page: 29
ending page: 47
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v26i1p29-47

Do production and perception walk together? A comparative study between production and perception of neutral yes no questions in Brazilian Portuguese
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description: The present work aims to study the perception of intonation in yes-no questions in the following varieties of Brazilian Portuguese: João Pessoa (PB), Aracaju (SE), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), São Paulo (SP), Florianópolis (SC) and Porto Alegre (RS). Previous production studies, developed under the theoretical apparatus of autosegmental metric phonology for intonation (Ladd, 2008[1996]) indicate two dialectal regions in BP: Northeast (PB, SE), characterized by a predominantly ascending interrogative nuclear contour; and Southeast-South (BA, RJ, SP, MG, SC and RS), characterized by an ascending-descending interrogative nuclear contour. The distribution of these patterns strongly suggests the formation of a dialectal continuum from North to South of the Brazilian Atlantic Coast, which was confirmed through a perception study for the two macro-regions (Castelo et al., 2018). Based on these studies, it was expected that, by expanding the sample of varieties, both the dialectal regions and the continuum found at the production level would be confirmed. Although the bidialectal distribution has been confirmed, the continuum in perception between varieties was not found for the current set of varieties investigated, suggesting indirect relations within production and perception as well as the complexity involved in the design and application of perception experiments on prosodic variation.
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subject: Brazilian Portuguese
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subject: Perception
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subject: Dialectal variation
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subject: intonation
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subject: yes-no question
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subject: Phonetics and Phonology
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subject: Letters and Linguistics
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creator: Joelma Castelo Bernardo da Silva
creator: Flaviane Romani Fernandes-Svartman
creator: Denise Cristina Kluge
creator: Ronaldo Mangueira Lima Júnior
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Joelma Castelo Bernardo da Silva, Flaviane Romani Fernandes-Svartman, Denise Cristina Kluge, Ronaldo Mangueira Lima Júnior https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-17
publication date: 2024-12-17
starting page: 97
ending page: 115
doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v26i1p97-115