Semantic categories in the indigenous languages of Brazil

This article investigates which semantic categories, as defined in Functional Discourse Grammar, formally manifest themselves in a sample of native languages of Brazil, and the extent to which the distribution of these manifestations across categories can be described systematically in terms of implicational hierarchies. The areas subjected to investigation are basic interrogative words, basic demonstrative words, and nominalization strategies.

Relações entre tempo e evidencialidade nas línguas indígenas do Brasil: um estudo tipológico-funcional

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As interrogativas de conteúdo na história do Português brasileir o: uma abordagem discursivo-funcional

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Multifuncionalidade e gramaticalização de Já no português falado culto

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Assertividade no discurso da autoajuda: um olhar discursivo e funcional

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Subordinação discursiva no português à luz da gramática discursivo-funcional

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Motivações funcionais da gradação entre construções encaixadas nominais e verbais

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Os verbos ver, ouvir e sentir e a expressão da evidencialidade em língua portuguesa

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As relações concessivas no português falado sob a perspectiva da gramática discursivo-funcional

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Basic illocutions in the native languages of Brazil

This paper shows that the distribution of basic illocutions (defined as grammatical structures that can be related to a default communicative intentions) within and across the indigenous languages of Brazil can be described systematically in terms of a set of implicational hierarchies by means of which the existence of certain basic illocutions can be predicted from the existence of others. In doing so, a case is made for a major distinction between propositional and behavioural basic illocutions, the former having to do with the exchange of information, the latter with influencing behaviour.

Ordering of representational level adverbial modifiers in spoken Brazilian Portuguese

Supported by the Functional Discourse Grammar theoretical model, as proposed by Hengeveld (2005), this paper aims to show that the order of modifiers of the Representational Level in spoken Brazilian Portuguese is determined by scope relations according to the layers of property, state-of-affairs and propositional content. This kind of distribution indicates that, far from being free-ordered as suggested by traditional grammarians, modifiers have a preferred position determined by semantic relations that may be only changed for pragmatic and structural reasons.

The expressibility of modality in representational complement clauses in Brazilian Portuguese

This paper deals with the (im)possibility of expressing a variety of modal categories within the context of the layering approach to complementation in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG).Our hypothesis is that modal expressions in complement clauses only pertain to operator or modifier classes of the highest layer relevant for that type of embedded construction and for all lower levels. In order to test this hypothesis, occurrences of complement clauses in two databases of spoken Brazilian Portuguese are analyzed. The investigation of this hypothesis is restricted to representational complement clauses.

A referência anafórica por encapsulamento: gramática e discurso

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A indeterminação pragmática e semântica do sujeito

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O sintagma verbal em português: construções perifrásticas e não-perifrásticas

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