Theticity: a functional category or a discursive issue in BP?

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2020.v16nEsp.a21688

Keywords:

Brazilian Portuguese. Theticity. Information Structure. Functional Category. Discourse.

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to contribute to studies about the expression of Theticity (SASSE, 1987, 2006; LAMBRECHT, 2000) in Brazilian Portuguese, by analyzing the syntax of this informational configuration. The goal is to discuss if theticity in this language is a functional category represented in cognition as, e.g. in Bybee (2010, 2013) or if it is a pragmatic condition interpreted in discourse. The results of a corpus analysis showed: (a): a variety of syntactic configurations not compatible with the idea of a functional category represented in cognition and (b): the presence of a kind of marker having presumably some function related to theticity at discourse level.

Author Biography

Paulo Pinheiro Correa, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)

Professor Associado de Língua Espanhola da Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). Doutor e Mestre em Linguística pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ. Pós-Doutorado em Linguística pela Universidade Complutense de Madri, Espanha. Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos de Linguagem da UFF, onde é líder de Grupo de Pesquisa. Suas áreas de interesse são Linguística Contrastiva, Interface Pragmática-Sintaxe, na descrição do espanhol e do português e Aquisição de Segundas Línguas.

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2020-11-07

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Vol. 16 (2020): Special Issue - Celebrating over 50 years of the Graduate Linguistics Program at UFRJ and of the Professor Emeritus Miriam Lemle’s career

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