The integration of multimodality into grammatical theory has attracted the interest of researchers working in Gesture Studies, Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar for some time now. This talk discusses theoretical aspects of multimodality in a Construction Grammar framework and presents methods to speed up the corpus-based study of multimodal phenomena in a large corpus of […]
A proposta da mesa é colocar em discussão meta-historiográfica questões pertinentes à pesquisa no campo da Historiografia da Linguística (HL). De estabelecimento acadêmico e institucional recente (desde a década de 1970), esse campo tem atraído cada vez mais o interesse de jovens pesquisadores que querem se dedicar ao estudo do conhecimento sobre a linguagem e […]
Esta comunicação examina as propriedades das Línguas de Sujeito Nulo (LSN) parcial, nas quais se inclui o português do Brasil, quando comparadas com as LSN consistente, como o português europeu, e com as línguas de pro-drop discursivo, como o chinês. Proponho que o mesmo mecanismo base é responsável pela omissão de argumentos nas LSN parcial […]
Nesta conferência apresentaremos uma justificativa histórica para a comparação entre o galego atual e o português brasileiro, de acordo com a origem comum no iberorromance galego, que deu lugar a uma série de variedades linguísticas formadas como efeito da colonização e que podem ser agrupadas num grupo linguístico denominado “portugalego” (Bagno, 2011). A formação do […]
Por muito tempo, predominaram no âmbito universitário e escolar perspectivas teóricas que definiam a leitura como mera decodificação de palavras e amontoados de frases, excluindo as motivações ideológicas, históricas e artísticas do processo de elaboração de sentido dos textos. Com o crescente aperfeiçoamento de teorias e fundamentos metodológicos, a leitura passou a ser encarada como […]
As Wilhelm von Humboldt observed long ago, human language is characterized by its ability to make “infinite use of finite means.” But what are these finite means, exactly? Words? Morphemes? In this talk, I will review existing work by various linguists, as well as a couple of observations of my own, that point to a […]
Learners of a second language commonly rely on their first language to break into the novel linguistic system. One would expect that due to the modality differences between speech and sign, learners of a sign language as a second language lack a system that could alleviate some of the burden to learn the target language. […]
We usually assume that the linear order of language is driven by the grammatical categories. This assumption is widely held in both syntax (e.g. SOV, Det N Adj) and morphology (e.g. N-Num-Case, V-Tns). However ordering may also deviate from this assumption, for example where words or morphemes have item-specific orderings that are not determined by […]
Language acquisition is often viewed as a problem of inference, in which the child—like a “mini-linguist”— tries to piece together the abstract grammar of her native language from incomplete and noisy input. This “language-as-knowledge” viewpoint contrasts with a more recent alternative, in which the challenge of language acquisition is practical, not theoretical: by practicing across […]
Theoretical accounts of argument structure typically try to explain meaning differences between alternating argument structures in terms of general semantic notions, such as affectedness, directionality or agency. The underlying idea is that these notions allow us to explain meaning differences using only few theoretical assumptions, i.e. that they provide parsimonious explanations. However, corpus linguists often […]