Contributions of Formal Semantics to the investigation of nominal phrases of portuguese in teaching context

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2021.v17n2a42789

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semantics, teaching, quantification, plural, agreement.

Abstract

This article presents some contributions from Formal Semantics to the investigation of noun phrases in Portuguese in teaching copntext following the research in this area, such as the works gathered in Müller and Paraguassu Martins (2021). The text presents a proposal based on the interpretive linguistic competence (cf. Chierchia, 2003) that uses scientific reasoning as methodology (cf, Honda; O’neil, 1993; Basso; Pires de Oliveira, 2012; Pires de Oliveira; Quarezemin; 2016) through an interpretive and pre-linguistic activity with an invented language. This activity aims to motivate the formulation of the specific hypothesis that items that behave as nouns denote sets in natural languages and that the singular form is interpreted as number neutral. Based on this premise, the text lists some grammatical behaviors of noun phrases in Brazilian Portuguese that can be analyzed in teaching context departing from this assumption, such as the use of bare nouns in argument position, the semantic and discursive functions of determinants and quantifiers and the variation on noun agreement in pluralized phrases.

Author Biography

Luciana Sanchez-Mendes, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)

Bacharelado e licenciatura em Letras – Português/Linguística (2006) e mestrado em Linguística pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP) (2009). Doutorado em Linguística em um programa de cotutela entre a USP e a Université Paris 8 – Vincennes Saint-Denis (2014).Pós-doutorado na Universidade Federal de Roraima (UFRR), investigando a língua Wapixana, e na USP, com um projeto de pesquisa acerca das sentenças comparativas em português brasileiro e em Karitiana.

Professora na Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) onde coordenadora do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Linguística Teórica e Experimental (GEPEX). 

Membro do Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos de Linguagem (PosLing – UFF), filiada à linha de pesquisa Teoria e Análise Linguística, com ênfase em Semântica Formal e descrição de línguas subrrepresentadas. Professora colaboradora do Mestrado Profissional em Linguística e Línguas Indígena do Museu Nacional – UFRJ (PROFLLIND).

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2021-06-21

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2021): Linguistics and Education

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