Preferred argument structure in oral and written Portuguese

Authors

  • Juliano Desiderato Antonio UEM
  • Maria Regina Pante UEM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihumansoc.v22i0.4111

Keywords:

estrutura argumental preferida, linguagem oral e linguagem escrita, fluxo de informação

Abstract

The existence of a preferred argument structure (PAS) in oral and written Portuguese in a corpus constituted by narratives, dissertations and interviews is examined in this study. PAS is a highly preferred pattern of using the verb direct arguments (intransitive subjects, transitive subject-A and object-O), which is constituted by grammatical (one lexical argument per clause and nonlexical A) and pragmatic (one new argument per clause and nonnew A) restrictions.

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Author Biography

  • Juliano Desiderato Antonio, UEM
    Atualmente é docente da Universidade Estadual de Maringá. Tem experiência na área de Lingüística, com ênfase em Funcionalismo, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: funcionalismo, ensino de gramática, gramática funcional e fonética. Currículo Lattes

Published

2008-07-02

Issue

Section

Literature and Linguistics

How to Cite

Antonio, J. D., & Pante, M. R. (2008). Preferred argument structure in oral and written Portuguese. Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences, 22, 15-23. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihumansoc.v22i0.4111

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