Variation of the inflected infinitive in Portuguese

This study uses corpus methods to examine a controversial topic in Portuguese syntax (Cunha & Cintra 2016): the variation of the inflected infinitive, an uncommon verbal form that marks the infinitive for person and number but not tense. Previous work by grammarians about the use, structure, and...

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Autores: Revheim Cunha, Vanessa|||0000-0002-9008-5911, McLendon, Jill, Ezro-Christy, Allonah
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.501
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Palabra clave:Corpus linguistics
Romance languages
Portuguese
Personal infinitive variation
Inflected infinitive variation
Logistic regression
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spelling Variation of the inflected infinitive in PortugueseRevheim Cunha, Vanessa|||0000-0002-9008-5911McLendon, JillEzro-Christy, AllonahCorpus linguisticsRomance languagesPortuguesePersonal infinitive variationInflected infinitive variationLogistic regressionThis study uses corpus methods to examine a controversial topic in Portuguese syntax (Cunha & Cintra 2016): the variation of the inflected infinitive, an uncommon verbal form that marks the infinitive for person and number but not tense. Previous work by grammarians about the use, structure, and distribution of the inflected infinitive is inconsistent. Pires and Rothman (2009) argue that the inflected infinitive has been lost in colloquial Brazilian Portuguese varieties, only being acquired through schooling and/or through the media. Cunha and Cintra (2016) state that there is variation when the subject of the infinitive is an oblique pronoun. This study uses SketchEngine's ptTenTen20 corpus (Kilgarriff et al. 2014) to investigate theoretical claims from previous literature. The advantage of web-scrapped corpora like the ptTenTen20 lies in large datasets and meta-annotation for variables of interest. Data were queried from SketchEngine, processed using R script, and analyzed with a fixed-effects logistic regression, using variety, genre, and structure as variables. The inflected infinitive was favored in European Portuguese and with clitic pronouns, with significant but contradictory effects seen for register. This study adds directly to the body of literature about the inflected infinitive in Portuguese, using empirical methods to investigate previous theoretical claims. 22025-01-0120252025-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/317460https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.501reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:3174602026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Variation of the inflected infinitive in Portuguese
title Variation of the inflected infinitive in Portuguese
spellingShingle Variation of the inflected infinitive in Portuguese
Revheim Cunha, Vanessa|||0000-0002-9008-5911
Corpus linguistics
Romance languages
Portuguese
Personal infinitive variation
Inflected infinitive variation
Logistic regression
title_short Variation of the inflected infinitive in Portuguese
title_full Variation of the inflected infinitive in Portuguese
title_fullStr Variation of the inflected infinitive in Portuguese
title_full_unstemmed Variation of the inflected infinitive in Portuguese
title_sort Variation of the inflected infinitive in Portuguese
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Revheim Cunha, Vanessa|||0000-0002-9008-5911
McLendon, Jill
Ezro-Christy, Allonah
author Revheim Cunha, Vanessa|||0000-0002-9008-5911
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McLendon, Jill
Ezro-Christy, Allonah
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Ezro-Christy, Allonah
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Corpus linguistics
Romance languages
Portuguese
Personal infinitive variation
Inflected infinitive variation
Logistic regression
topic Corpus linguistics
Romance languages
Portuguese
Personal infinitive variation
Inflected infinitive variation
Logistic regression
description This study uses corpus methods to examine a controversial topic in Portuguese syntax (Cunha & Cintra 2016): the variation of the inflected infinitive, an uncommon verbal form that marks the infinitive for person and number but not tense. Previous work by grammarians about the use, structure, and distribution of the inflected infinitive is inconsistent. Pires and Rothman (2009) argue that the inflected infinitive has been lost in colloquial Brazilian Portuguese varieties, only being acquired through schooling and/or through the media. Cunha and Cintra (2016) state that there is variation when the subject of the infinitive is an oblique pronoun. This study uses SketchEngine's ptTenTen20 corpus (Kilgarriff et al. 2014) to investigate theoretical claims from previous literature. The advantage of web-scrapped corpora like the ptTenTen20 lies in large datasets and meta-annotation for variables of interest. Data were queried from SketchEngine, processed using R script, and analyzed with a fixed-effects logistic regression, using variety, genre, and structure as variables. The inflected infinitive was favored in European Portuguese and with clitic pronouns, with significant but contradictory effects seen for register. This study adds directly to the body of literature about the inflected infinitive in Portuguese, using empirical methods to investigate previous theoretical claims.
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