Ordering of representational level adverbial modifiers in spoken Brazilian Portuguese

Supported by the Functional Discourse Grammar theoretical model, as proposed by Hengeveld (2005), this paper aims to show that the order of modifiers of the Representational Level in spoken Brazilian Portuguese is determined by scope relations according to the layers of property, state-of-affairs an...

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Autor: Pezatti, Erotilde Goreti [UNESP]
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/107399
Acesso em linha:http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/view/1448
http://hdl.handle.net/11449/107399
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Functional Discourse Grammar
Word Order
Modifier
Adverbial Phrase
Descrição
Resumo:Supported by the Functional Discourse Grammar theoretical model, as proposed by Hengeveld (2005), this paper aims to show that the order of modifiers of the Representational Level in spoken Brazilian Portuguese is determined by scope relations according to the layers of property, state-of-affairs and propositional content. This kind of distribution indicates that, far from being free-ordered as suggested by traditional grammarians, modifiers have a preferred position determined by semantic relations that may be only changed for pragmatic and structural reasons.