Esta tese apresenta, por um lado, uma descrição sumária do funcionamento dos sufixos latinos -men e -mentum em relação à sua produção lexical, às suas características morfológicas e semânticas e a informação semântica estrutural de suas palavras derivadas, no Latim. Por outro, analisa, de modo exaustivo, como o sufixo -mentum desenvolveu-se nas principais línguas românicas: Castelhano, Francês, Italiano e Romeno, para poder contrastar com o Português. Apresentamos primeiramente uma proposta de origem para o sufixo latino - mentum, diferente da bibliografia existente sobre o assunto, que indica que -mentum advém de um alargamento de -men. Para isso, montamos um corpus de análise das palavras latinas, identificando as bases nominal e verbal das palavras em -men e em -mentum; em seguida, analisamos a datação dessas palavras para, ao final, verificar o significado do sufixo em cada uma delas, resultando numa proposta de genealogia dos sufixos -men / -mentum. Na segunda parte desta tese, apresentamos a derivação panromânica do sufixo latino -mentum. Montamos um corpus para cada língua pesquisada, de modo exaustivo, com indicação de data de entrada, étimo, origem e aspecto semântico. Em cada capítulo, analisamos todos os itens, exceto no Português, em que não realizamos pesquisa feita previamente em Freitas (2008), sobre a semântica dessas palavras. Em todas as línguas, propusemos uma árvore genealógica do sufixo estudado sob um aspecto semântico, mostrando o caminho feito pelo sufixo por meio de seus significados. Ao final, propomos um modelo de análise etimológica para as línguas românicas e uma genealogia do sufixo -mentum, do Latim às românicas. / This thesis presents, on the one hand, a brief description of the functioning of Latin suffixes -men and -mentum related to their lexical production, their morphological and semantic characteristics as well as the structural semantic information of their derived words in Latin. On the other hand, it analyses exhaustively the development of the suffix -mentum in the main Romance languages: Spanish, French, Italian and Romanian, so that we can contrast them with Portuguese. First, we present a proposal for the origins of the Latin suffix -mentum, different from the existing bibliography on the subject, which suggests that -mentum comes from an enlargement of -men. Thus, we have organised a corpus for the analysis of the Latin words, identifying the nominal and verbal bases of words ending in -men and -mentum; then, we analyse the datings of these words, so that we can verify the meaning of the suffix in each one of them, which results in a proposal for the genealogy of both suffixes -men / -mentum. In the second part of the thesis, we present the PanRomance derivation of Latin suffix -mentum. We have organized an exhaustive corpus for each language, indicating the first datings, etymon, origin and semantic aspect. In each chapter, we have analysed every item, but for Portuguese, in which we have not made the research previously presented in Freitas (2008) about the semantics of these words. For every language we have proposed a genealogical tree for the suffix, in its semantic aspect, showing the routes taken by the suffix through its meanings. Finally, we have proposed a model for etymological analysis for Romance languages, and a genealogy of the suffix -mentum, from Latin to Romance languages.

Em uma consulta a gramáticas já desde fins do século XVIII , a livros didáticos e a manuais de morfologia da língua portuguesa, encontra-se, geralmente, uma lista de vários sufixos considerados diminutivos. Contudo, muito raramente se encontram explicações acerca das mudanças linguísticas que possibilitaram que tais sufixos alcançassem as formas que possuem, ou sobre o comportamento sincrônico desses sufixos sobretudo quando a sincronia em questão é uma sincronia pretérita , ou, ainda, quanto à descrição diacrônica ou histórica desses sufixos, no período que se estende do século XIII ao XX, quer tendo como foco a forma, quer o funcionamento, quer a semântica. Desse modo, a partir da identificação dos sufixos que atuam como diminutivos em língua portuguesa e considerando o fato de essa língua ser uma língua românica, esta pesquisa apresenta, inicialmente, uma caracterização de sufixos diminutivos latinos quanto à origem, à forma e à significação, ao que segue a descrição das principais mudanças ocorridas nesses sufixos desde o latim vulgar até algumas línguas românicas, como o português, o espanhol, o francês, o provençal e o italiano, sendo as formas resultantes nestas últimas quatro línguas ainda descritas em relação à sua forma e à sua semântica. Na sequência, os sufixos diminutivos existentes em português foram caracterizados desde o século XIII ao XX, século a século em seus aspectos formais (fonéticos e morfológicos), funcionais e semânticos, fase essa em que se identificaram, também, características que esses sufixos possuem em comum com os latinos e com os românicos, em especial com os das línguas mencionadas. Para isso, foram constituídos corpora de diminutivos relativos a cada um dos séculos aqui contemplados, tendo por base a análise de palavras encontradas em dois corpora eletrônicos, o Corpus Informatizado do Português Medieval (CIPM) para textos compreendidos entre os séculos XIII e XV e o Corpus do Português para textos entre os séculos XIV e XX. Com base na análise dos diminutivos identificados, foi possível concluir que os sufixos diminutivos existentes em português são provenientes da língua latina quer por herança, quer por empréstimo a outras línguas românicas ou ao latim clássico , os quais conservam, ainda, algumas das características dos diminutivos naquela língua, como manutenção do gênero da palavra primitiva, diversidade semântica e formação de nomes próprios diminutivos. Os dados analisados indicam, também, que, embora sejam muitos, os sufixos diminutivos em português são muito pouco produtivos nessa língua, com exceção dos sufixos em -t- a partir do século XIX e, principalmente, do sufixo -inho, muito frequente e o mais produtivo em todas as sincronias descritas, podendo, assim, ser caracterizado como o sufixo diminutivo por excelência da língua portuguesa, com previsão de que ainda continuará sendo por muitos séculos. / Consulting grammars since the end of the eighteenth century , textbooks and manuals on morphology of the portuguese language, a list of several suffixes, considered as diminutives, is usually presented. Nevertheless, explications not only on linguistic changes, that justify the current forms of such suffixes, but also on their synchronic functioning particularly when the synchrony concerned is a past one , or on their diachronic or historical description, from the 13th to the 20th century, are rare, focusing either on form, functioning or semantics. Thus, from the identification of the suffixes, that function as diminutives in portuguese language, a romance language, this research presents, in a first moment, a characterization of the latin diminutive suffixes, concerning origin, form and signification; in a second one, it describes the main changes occurred in these suffixes, from vulgar latin to portuguese, spanish, french, provencal and italian, whose forms except in portuguese are described concerning form and semantics; then, the portuguese diminutive suffixes were characterized, from the 13th to the 20th century, one century at a time considering the formal aspects (phonetics and morphology), functional and semantical aspects, moment in which the portuguese diminutive suffixes were compared to latin and to its mentioned sister romance languages, in order to verify the features they have in common. For this comparison, corpora about diminutive suffixes were established, from the 13th to the 20th century, century by century. Such corpora, from which the words analyzed were taken, included the Corpus Informatizado do Português Medieval (CIPM) concerning the texts from the 13th to the 15th century and the Corpus do Português concerning the texts from the 14th to the 20th century. After the analysis of the portuguese diminutive suffixes identified in such corpora, it was verified that the portuguese diminutive suffixes come from the latin language either through heritage or through loan of other romance languages or classical latin , still keeping some features of the diminutives of the popular latin, such as: preservation of the gender of the primitive word, semantic diversity and composition of diminutive proper name. These analyzed data show as well that the diminutive suffixes, although plentiful, are very little productive in portuguese, except the suffixes in -t-, from the 19th century on, and, chiefly, the suffix -inho, very frequent and the most productive in all described synchronies, being considered, therefore, as the diminutive suffix of the portuguese language par excellence, with great probability to continue for ages.

Pregnancy, a human phenomenon experienced throughout the world and throughout history, has been largely ignored by the philosophical community. A preference for the abnormal and the extraordinary has left this common yet challenging process on the sidelines of philosophical discussion. Pregnancy stands as a significant challenge to many of our intuitions about the self, particularly those concerning the boundaries, plurality and diachronic identity of the self. Because of this, pregnancy necessitates a theory of the self which does not merely uphold our usual assumptions about the self. Daniel Dennett presents a theory of the self which meets this criterion. He argues that the self is a centre of narrative gravity: an abstract, theoretical entity which is useful for the explanation and prediction of an individual’s behaviour. Dennett’s theory, though provocative, lacks a basis in typical human experience. He relies primarily on thought experiments and extraordinary conditions to support his theory. To demonstrate the applicability and generality of this theory, it must be tested against a common, natural human occurrence like pregnancy. In this paper we explore the application of Daniel Dennett’s theory of the narrative self to the experience of pregnancy. This application yields a double result. Dennett’s theory is bolstered by a demonstration of its generality and applicability, and the experience of pregnancy is placed into a context in which it can be validated and understood.

Pregnancy, a human phenomenon experienced throughout the world and throughout history, has been largely ignored by the philosophical community. A preference for the abnormal and the extraordinary has left this common yet challenging process on the sidelines of philosophical discussion. Pregnancy stands as a significant challenge to many of our intuitions about the self, particularly those concerning the boundaries, plurality and diachronic identity of the self. Because of this, pregnancy necessitates a theory of the self which does not merely uphold our usual assumptions about the self. Daniel Dennett presents a theory of the self which meets this criterion. He argues that the self is a centre of narrative gravity: an abstract, theoretical entity which is useful for the explanation and prediction of an individual’s behaviour. Dennett’s theory, though provocative, lacks a basis in typical human experience. He relies primarily on thought experiments and extraordinary conditions to support his theory. To demonstrate the applicability and generality of this theory, it must be tested against a common, natural human occurrence like pregnancy. In this paper we explore the application of Daniel Dennett’s theory of the narrative self to the experience of pregnancy. This application yields a double result. Dennett’s theory is bolstered by a demonstration of its generality and applicability, and the experience of pregnancy is placed into a context in which it can be validated and understood.

Eliminative materialism is a view that has been sparsely acknowledged and often overlooked when it comes to providing us with a criterion of what it takes for you and me to persist over time. This owes much to its counterintuitive belief in the non-existence of folk-psychological notions, such as persons. Against a backdrop of philosophical and scientific inquiry, this paper amounts to providing such a criterion in the form of f-organisms, taking a different route based on emergent descriptions, instead of conventional reductive explanations. The temporal plasticity (change over time) of such f-organisms display stable persistence conditions despite their constant state of reconstruction. What informs the question of identity in such a paradigm is dealt with accordingly, and the notion of the self is put in a context in which it can no longer be said to be the self we are familiar with – a context in which the center fails to hold. The imperative question for any of such criteria will be to accommodate the concept of identity as unconstrained and far away from uncertainty as possible. The main theme will thus be to reassess the general notion of diachronic identity to include our identity over time, and make explicit the various implications for such a view.

The concept of 'ageism' has often been thought to be of limited moral concern, especially in comparison to other forms of discrimination such as racism and sexism. Nevertheless, there are also those who believe that ageism is morally significant, and there are diametrically opposed views within liberal and egalitarian theory as to whether age discrimination is or is not just. This thesis has two objectives. Firstly, it seeks to overcome the apparent vagueness of the concept that has given rise to such diametrically opposed views concerning ageism by examining exactly what the phenomenon involves. It defines the wrongfulness of much age discrimination as originating in either the nature of the reasons for which people discriminate against the old or the nature of the consequences for the individuals affected. In the course of the thesis I make several important distinctions, the most important of which are between the social and moral worth of a person, and between the synchronic and diachronic interests of a person. These distinctions allow us to distinguish between a culturally oppressive ageism and ageism that is justified by reasons of equality and efficiency. The former is intrinsically morally wrong, the latter extrinsically wrong. The second aim of the thesis is to develop an anti-ageist ethical principle capable of challenging both forms of ageism in a comprehensive way, and which is consistent with a broader liberal egalitarian political theory. This is achieved by drawing on the distinction between the irreducible nature of each person's synchronic and diachronic interests. I have identified the principle that we should protect the synchronic interests of older persons with a democratic social egalitarianism that seeks to equalise the social relations between citizens rather than concentrating upon an equality of distribution. It is in this way that I also connect the debate about the morality (or otherwise) of age discrimination with debates within contemporary liberal egalitarian philosophy.

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-43).

Esta dissertação teve como objetivo articular um estudo do determinante diante das formas possessivas com base em um corpus histórico jornalístico composto de anúncios e cartas de leitores e redatores extraídos de jornais paulistas do século XIX. Focalizamos as formas possessivas seu/seus/sua/suas pré-nominais, observando a presença versus ausência do artigo definido e seus diferentes contextos. Nossas hipóteses buscaram resolver algumas questões teóricas relacionadas à estrutura do DP possessivo no PB, entre elas a da opcionalidade aparente do determinante e a da variação na realização de Número no interior da estrutura. Desenvolvemos respostas e análises às questões a partir da associação de dois quadros teóricos: a teoria dos Princípios & Parâmetros (CHOMSKY 1981, 1986) incluindo alguns refinamentos do Programa Minimalista (CHOMSKY 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004), e os pressupostos elaborados dentro da Sociolinguística Variacionista (cf. WEINREICH, LABOV e HERZOG (WLH) (1968); LABOV (1972, 1994, 2000)). Consideramos também estudos posteriores que conciliaram a mudança paramétrica internalista da língua (ROBERTS (2007)) com fatores extragramaticais que determinam o percurso das formas linguísticas no tempo histórico (KROCH (1989, 1994, 2000)). Para o estudo da estrutura do DP possessivo usamos a análise sobre os Bare Nouns de Cyrino & Espinal (2014). Os resultados obtidos mostraram que a média geral de ausência do determinante diante de DPs possessivos se manteve a mesma nos dois períodos analisados, configurando uma variação estável. Concluímos que não houve, portanto, indícios de oscilação no uso de uma ou outra variante que pudesse demonstrar o avanço de uma delas em detrimento de outra. / The aim of this thesis is to describe the possessive DP structure and investigate the use of the determiner in possessive noun phrases in Paulista Brazilian Portuguese from the 19th century. For our description and analysis, we use advertisements and letters from readers and writers drawn from a historical and journalistic corpus. This research tries to verify if there is a parametric change and the contexts affected by the change and to propose an analysis for the observed facts. We adopt a minimalist approach based on Chomsky (1995, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004), within the Principles and Parameters Model (CHOMSKY 1981, 1986). We also adopt a variationist sociolinguistical approach (cf. WEINREICH, LABOV and HERZOG (WLH) (1968); LABOV (1972, 1994, 2000)) and studies of internalist parametric change (ROBERTS (2007)) and social factors (KROCH (1989, 1994, 2000)) to determine the way the possible change takes place. In order to explore possessive DP structure we use the Bare Nouns analyses by Cyrino & Espinal (2014). During the period considered, the use of the article was variable, setting a stable variation.

Os estudos voltados à tradução têm se expandido sobremaneira nos últimos anos, bem como o interesse dos estudiosos pela convergência de diferentes áreas com as quais a tradução dialoga em suas múltiplas interfaces entre elas a Tradução Especializada, a Tradução Literária, a Terminologia, a Terminologia Diacrônica e a Linguística de Corpus. Diante dessa profusão de pontos de vista, o presente estudo foi conduzido de modo a estabelecer um diálogo muito próximo entre a tradição dos estudos tradutórios de Terminologia em textos especializados e os recentes estudos tradutórios de Terminologia em textos não-técnicos (ZAVAGLIA et al., 2010). Defendemos, nesta pesquisa, com base no aporte teórico proposto pela TCT de Cabré (1999) e pela Etno-terminologia de Barbosa (2006), que a livre circulação de termos das áreas de especialidade em textos não-especializados, a exemplo da literatura, não é recente, o que, segundo nosso entendimento, demanda uma documentação terminológica por parte do tradutor leigo prévia ao ato tradutório. Utilizando como corpus de estudo a peça de teatro francesa Les Plaideurs de Jean Racine de 1668, ainda sem tradução para o português do Brasil, conduzimos este trabalho seguindo um roteiro que se inicia com a coleta de candidatos a termos jurídicos relacionados ao Ancien Régime presentes na peça auxiliados pelas técnicas da Linguística de Corpus (BERBER SARDINHA, 2004), a confecção de fichas terminológicas bilígues (AUBERT, 1996) e (CAMACHO, 2004) que determinam as delimitações conceituais dos candidatos levantados por meio de uma pesquisa em Terminologia Diacrônica, finalizando-se com propostas de equivalentes em português do Brasil para as unidades terminológicas levantadas em língua francesa segundo os parâmetros teóricos trazidos por Aubert (1998, 2006) com suas Modalidades de Tradução. Ao final desta pesquisa, pudemos constatar que cabe também ao tradutor de textos não-técnicos uma atenção especial à profusão de registros que podem existir nesses tipos de textos, aqui exemplificados por meio da literatura universal e clássica, o que traz a necessidade de trabalho conjunta entre as áreas da Terminologia e da Tradução, rompendo com parâmetros estritamente formais. / Translation studies have been greatly expanding during the last few years as well as the interest of researchers in the convergence of Translation itself and other different areas such as Specialized Translation, Literary Translation, Terminology, Diachronic Terminology and Corpus Linguistics. Given this profusion of points of view, this study aimed at establishing a very close dialogue between the traditional association of translation studies and terminology of specialized texts and the recent association of translation studies and terminology of non-technical texts (ZAVAGLIA et al, 2010). According to the proposals by Cabré (1999) and Barbosa (2006), we argue that the free movement of specialized areas terms in non-specialized texts such as literature is not something new which, in our opinion, demands a terminological documentation by the nontechnical text translator before the act of translation. Using Jean Racines French play Les Plaideurs (1668) as our corpus of study not yet translated into Brazilian Portuguese , legal terms related to the Ancien Régime present in the play were firstly collected aided by the techniques of Corpus Linguistics (BERBER SARDINHA, 2004). Secondly, based on the foundations of Diachronic Terminology, bilingual terminological records (AUBERT, 1996 & CAMACHO, 2004) were elaborated, which determined the conceptual boundaries of the collected candidates. Finally, proposals of equivalents in Brazilian Portuguese were suggested according to Auberts Modalities of Translation (1998, 2006). At last, we found that it is also necessary that the nontechnical text translator gives special attention to the variety of language registers that may exist in these types of texts, exemplified here by means of universal and classic literature, which brings the need for joint working between the areas of Terminology and Translation, breaking strictly formal parameters.

Human rights terms can be understood and categorised in different ways, according to various standards, in different periods of history. Studying the development of these vocabularies in their historical context provides the grounds for understanding the history of ideas involving human rights. This research used a diachronic approach to examine the changes in the use of terms associated with freedoms and rights in Egyptian political writings in three periods between 1869 and 1952. Three main sources were used as an analytic corpus: (1) Al-Ṭahṭawī’s books; (2) Muḥammad cAbduh’s political articles in Al-Waqā’ic newspaper (published 1880-1882), and (3) political articles published in Al-Ahrām newspaper (1876-1952). The semantic changes identified were assessed using two criteria: First, changes in the terms and expressions that were used to convey types of freedoms and rights were evaluated, and second, changes in the contexts in which these terms were used in three chronological periods were assessed. These periods corresponded to the period of Al-Ṭahṭāwī (1869-1873); the period of the cUrābī Revolution to prior to the Revolution of 1919 (1879-1918), and the period from the Revolution of 1919 until the end of 1952, the year of the July Revolution. The first period registered a lexical contribution represented by the production of new expressions of freedoms and rights, with very little semantic contribution. In the second period, a limited lexical and semantic expansion was found, involving an increase in terms and the entitlements to which they referred; these terms and entitlements were mainly confined to the private sphere of individuals, and new entitlements were applicable to people who did not oppose the political authorities. In the third period, terms were found to refer to entitlements for individuals in the public sphere; this was considered to be, at the linguistic level, a lexical and semantic development. In all cases, the meaning of the terms was dependent on context and thus necessarily subject to cultural and political interpretations. The study concludes with recommendations for considering the evolution of Arabic political vocabularies (mainly vocabularies of freedoms and rights) in different historical periods involving different political circumstances.