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Verbs and their syntactic and semantic properties have been studied in several languages, in different theoretical frameworks. However, as for copulative verbs, studies of Sign Languages are still scarce, mainly of Portuguese Sign Language. Therefore, in this paper, some properties of predicative phrases with adjectives, participles and locatives in European Portuguese and Portuguese Sign Language are studied, comparing them with other Oral Languages, in particular Iberian Romance languages, and also with other Sign Languages. Portuguese Sign Language data seem to indicate that the copulative verb is lexically realized when there is a locative predicate and that with a non-locative predicate a null copula occurs.

Este artigo inscreve-se no âmbito da Linguistica Comparativa e tem como principal objetivo mostrar que a LGP apresenta aspetos estruturantes semelhantes aos que se verificam em linguas orais em contacto com o Portugues. Faremos uma apresentacao dos fenomenos de expressao da quantidade e das categorias de sexo dos referentes e dos seus processos de realizacao. A LGP tem a possibilidade de comunicar a quantidade atraves de mecanismos variados, manuais e nao manuais, e permite transmitir, quando necessaria a comunicacao, a informacao da categoria biologica sexo dos referentes animados envolvidos no discurso; no entanto, nao integra o grupo de linguas com numero formal e genero gramatical, pelo que nenhuma das categorias em analise na LGP - quantidade e categorias de sexo dos referentes - apresenta implicacoes na concordância morfossintatica das palavras nos sintagmas e nas frases, ainda que se recorra a mecanismos lexicais, morfossintaticos e prosodicos para as expressar. DOI: 10.28998/2317-9945.2017v1n58p4-25

Neste texto, discute-se varias dimensoes da refl exaogramatical na aula de lingua materna, procurando responder ao porque,ao quando e ao como ensinar gramatica, perguntas que estao intimamenterelacionadas. Depois de se analisar a situacao atual nos ensinos basico esecundario em Portugal, propoe-se que uma pratica pedagogica sistematica,capaz de relacionar a gramatica com o discurso, literario ou nao, e dotadade uma componente tecnica, laboratorial, permitira a consciencia informadada gramatica e, tendencialmente, proporcionara uma mestria linguisticasuperior.

Cognate constructions form a very extended family and they exist in different world languages. In this paper, we analyze Cognate Object’s types and subtypes in European Portuguese, using the framework of Distributed Morphology. From a theoretical point of view, the assumptions of this model allow us to explain that verbs with different syntactic-semantic properties ( sonhar [to dream], tossir [to cough], cantar [to sing] and dormir [to sleep]) may occur in structures with a cognate object in verbal adjacency, typically in a direct object position. Movement by copy and co-indexing prove to be central mechanisms to the licensing of the cognate object constructions with an eventive interpretation, as in tossir-tosse [to cough-cough].

The text analyzes the verbs with cognate objects in European Portuguese and provides an analysis of this phenomenon in the framework of Distributed Morphology, and a few ideas of the Minimalist Program. In this paper we only develop the analysis of the constructions of the type of chorar um choro... [cry a cry…] and cantar uma cantiga [sing a song]. Since a lexicalist theory as the one developed by Hale e Keyser (1993; 2002) can’t solve all the issues raised by the various types of constructions in EP, we will try an analysis that combines the contributions of Haugen (2009), on cognate objects, Marantz (1993) and Alexiadou (2001, 2006), on verbal functional heads, and (Chomsky 1995), on the idea of movement by copy

The present paper aims at discussing selected syntactic aspects of cognate objects in European Portuguese, along the lines of Distributed Morphology (Haugen, 2009). Cognate objects may be readily discovered in numerous human languages, including European Portuguese (Chovia uma chuva miudinha). It is assumed in papers devoted to their English counterparts that they belong to various subclasses. Indeed, some of them are genuine cognates (to sleep a sleep...) or hyponyms (to dance a jig; Hale & Keyser, 2002). It turns out that in European Portuguese, they can be split into four different categories: (i) genuine cognate objects (chorar um choro...), (ii) similar cognate objects (dançar uma dança) (iii) objects hyponyms (dançar um tango) and (iv) prepositional cognate objects (morrer de uma morte ...). There are, then, significant differences between various classes of cognate objects: whereas the genuine ones call imperatively for a restrictive modifier and a definite article, the remaining ones admit it only optionally. It might be concluded, then, that a lexicalist theory set up along the lines of Hale and Keyser is unable to deal successfully with distributional facts proper to various classes of cognate constructions in European Portuguese. That is why the present study is conducted more in accordance with syntactic principles of Distributed Morphology, with a strong impact of hypotheses put forward by Haugen (2009).

The present paper aims at discussing selected syntactic aspects of cognate objects in European Portuguese, along the lines of Distributed Morphology (Haugen, 2009). Cognate objects may be readily discovered in numerous human languages, including European Portuguese (Chovia uma chuva miudinha). It is assumed in papers devoted to their English counterparts that they belong to various subclasses. Indeed, some of them are genuine cognates (to sleep a sleep...) or hyponyms (to dance a jig; Hale & Keyser, 2002). It turns out that in European Portuguese, they can be split into four different categories: (i) genuine cognate objects (chorar um choro...), (ii) similar cognate objects (dançar uma dança) (iii) objects hyponyms (dançar um tango) and (iv) prepositional cognate objects (morrer de uma morte ...). There are, then, significant differences between various classes of cognate objects: whereas the genuine ones call imperatively for a restrictive modifier and a definite article, the remaining ones admit it only optionally. It might be concluded, then, that a lexicalist theory set up along the lines of Hale and Keyser is unable to deal successfully with distributional facts proper to various classes of cognate constructions in European Portuguese. That is why the present study is conducted more in accordance with syntactic principles of Distributed Morphology, with a strong impact of hypotheses put forward by Haugen (2009).