Innovative participles in Brazilian Portuguese

Authors

  • Ana Paula Scher Universidade de São Paulo
  • Marcus Vinicius Lunguinho Centro Universitário de Brasília
  • Aline Garcia Rodero Takahira Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2013.v9n1a4568

Abstract

In this paper we analyze a new kind of participle formation in Brazilian Portuguese, which we have called innovative participles. This type of participle, which is getting more and more common for speakers of this language, takes place in contexts where only the canonical regular forms were expected, freely alternating with such forms. Our main aims are to determine the structure associated with innovative participles and to understand what mechanism of Brazilian Portuguese grammar makes the variation between regular and innovative participles possible. Assuming a Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz, 1993) approach to grammar, we propose that the same syntactic structure underlies the formation of both types of participles and the difference between them is the result of different morphological processes that occur at the level of Morphological Structure.

Author Biographies

Ana Paula Scher, Universidade de São Paulo

Doutora em Linguística pela UNICAMP; Professora MS3, nível 2, docente permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Semiótica e Linguística Geral do Departamento de Linguística da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, da Universidade de São Paulo.

Marcus Vinicius Lunguinho, Centro Universitário de Brasília

Doutor em Linguística pela USP.

Aline Garcia Rodero Takahira, Universidade de São Paulo

Doutoranda em Linguística do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Semiótica e Linguística Geral do Departamento de Linguística da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, da Universidade de São Paulo (USP).

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2015-06-01

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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2013): Sintaxe e Semântica Formais

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