Evidências advindas da aquisição do português do Brasil para os tipos de 'perfect'

Nayana Pires da Silva Rodrigues; Adriana Leitão Martins

doi:10.31513/linguistica.2019.v15n3a28438

Pieces of evidence for the types of perfect taken from the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese

Authors

Nayana Pires da Silva Rodrigues Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1399-2574
Adriana Leitão Martins Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0510-2586

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2019.v15n3a28438

Keywords:

language acquisition, perfect aspect, resultative perfect, universal perfect, experiential perfect.

Abstract

This research intends to investigate the acquisition in Brazilian Portuguese of the three types of perfect, proposed by Pancheva (2003), associated with the present tense, assuming the existence of syntactic node(s) of perfect in the structural representation of the sentence. Based on this investigation, we aim to contribute to the study of the representation of linguistic knowledge of perfect. The hypothesis of this research is that the emergence of the resultative perfect, experiential perfect and universal perfect associated with the present tense occurs simultaneously in the Brazilian Portuguese acquisition. To this end, we developed a case study, with speech data longitudinally retrieved from a child in the process of acquiring Brazilian Portuguese. The obtained data revealed the following order of realization of the perfect types: resultative perfect, universal perfect and experiential perfect. This way, we refuted the hypothesis of this study. Thus, we suggest that there is a dissociation in the linguistic representation of these types of perfect, each one of them projecting, respectively, the nodes RePerfP, UPerfP and ExPerfP. The features heading these projections would be, respectively, resultative, continuous and experience. We also argue in favor of the following structural hierarchy: ExPerfP > UPerfP > RePerfP.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2019.v15n3a28438

Author Biographies

Nayana Pires da Silva Rodrigues, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Bacharel em fonoaudiologia e mestre em linguística pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Doutoranda em liguística pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Bolsista CAPEs.

Adriana Leitão Martins, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Professora Associada de Linguística do Departamento de Linguística e Filologia, do Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística e do Mestrado Profissional em Letras da UFRJ.

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Published

2019-12-30

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 3 (2019): Functional projections, cartography and nanosyntax

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