Diploma thesis is concentrated on the phenomenon called coocurance of primary prepositions. It is a construction of two prepositions directly standing next to each other, where each of them is part of another prepositional phrase. The first preposition is not directly in front of its phrases, but there is the second prepositional phrase inserted between the first preposition and its phrases. The aim of the thesis was to find these structures in the corpus SYN2009PUB, and their description of the semantic and formal aspects. Inserted phrase is in most cases syntactically incorporated into sentence, where takes the adverbial or object distinction. Comparison in length (in number of words) of inserted phrase with the phrases, which can be inserted, showed that during insertion depends on the length of the transferred phrases. The paper outlines other factors affecting coocurence, e. g. pronounceability.

Résumé L’hypothèse de la période critique, émise par Lenneberg dans les années 60, affirmait qu’un enfant pouvait acquérir une langue seconde, sans difficulté, environ jusqu’à l’âge de la puberté. Après cette période, l’apprentissage d’un autre idiome serait difficile, dû à la latéralisation du cerveau. En même temps, les travaux de Chomsky enrichirent cette théorie avec l’idée de la Grammaire universelle, laquelle établit que nous possédons tous, dès la naissance, les éléments linguistiques universels qui nous permettent d’acquérir une langue maternelle. Tant que la Grammaire universelle est active, notre langue maternelle se développe et c’est pourquoi, si nous apprenons une autre langue pendant cette période, l’acquisition de celle-ci se produit de manière presque naturelle. Pour cette raison, plus une langue est apprise tôt, plus elle sera maîtrisée avec succès. En nous appuyant sur ce cadre théorique ainsi que sur l’Analyse d’erreurs, outil qui permet au professeur de prédire quelques erreurs avec la finalité de créer des stratégies d’apprentissage d’une langue seconde, nous tenterons de vérifier dans le présent travail si l’âge est un facteur qui influence positivement ou négativement l’apprentissage d’une langue seconde, l’espagnol dans ce cas-ci, par le biais de l’analyse comparative des prépositions a/ en dans deux groupes d’étudiants différents. / Abstract According to Leeneberg's critical period hypothesis from the sixties, a child can acquire a second language approximately until puberty, for afterwards the lateralization of the brain takes place and the acquisition of second language becomes more difficult. Further on, Chomsky’s research would contribute to this theory with the Universal Grammar idea or the inborn universal linguistic elements that we use in order to acquire mother tongue. While the Universal Grammar is still on, the already acquired Mother Tongue continues to develop. As a result, the acquisition of another language during this period becomes a natural process, leading to the conclusion that the earlier a child starts learning a second language, the better its acquisition will be. Therefore and for the purpose of this research, a theoretical framework and the error analysis, the tool allowing the teacher to predict some error in order to create the adequate language strategies for effective second language acquisition, are used. I will try to verify the age-factor influence positively or negatively in the acquisition of a second language, in this special case the Spanish language, by means of the comparative analysis of the a/ en prepositional pair with two different groups of apprentices.

Spanish, as a V(erb)-framed language (Talmy 1985), is expected to lexicalize the path of motion in the verb and manner in some satellite when it comes to the description of motion events. Nonetheless, it shows mixed properties (e.g. Aske 1989, Berman & Slobin 1994). All manner of motion verbs can take a path satellite introduced by the prepositions "hacia" and "hasta", and yet only some can take a path satellite introduced by the preposition "a." I claim that goal XPs introduced by "hasta" and "hacia" are adjuncts, whereas "a" is an argument marker. In order to capture the intermediacy of a verb’s ability to take a goal XP, I classify manner of motion verbs according to a three-way distinction that takes into account whether they encode path categorically, overwhelmingly, or only sometimes, and whether they lexically reject the notion of a goal. Finally, I posit verb coercion—under certain semantic and pragmatic conditions—of manner of motion verbs that strongly or categorically favor displacement in order to express a goal. These semantic/pragmatic influential factors are reduced to (i) degree of manner and (ii) degree of goal-orientedness. / text

Résumé L’hypothèse de la période critique, émise par Lenneberg dans les années 60, affirmait qu’un enfant pouvait acquérir une langue seconde, sans difficulté, environ jusqu’à l’âge de la puberté. Après cette période, l’apprentissage d’un autre idiome serait difficile, dû à la latéralisation du cerveau. En même temps, les travaux de Chomsky enrichirent cette théorie avec l’idée de la Grammaire universelle, laquelle établit que nous possédons tous, dès la naissance, les éléments linguistiques universels qui nous permettent d’acquérir une langue maternelle. Tant que la Grammaire universelle est active, notre langue maternelle se développe et c’est pourquoi, si nous apprenons une autre langue pendant cette période, l’acquisition de celle-ci se produit de manière presque naturelle. Pour cette raison, plus une langue est apprise tôt, plus elle sera maîtrisée avec succès. En nous appuyant sur ce cadre théorique ainsi que sur l’Analyse d’erreurs, outil qui permet au professeur de prédire quelques erreurs avec la finalité de créer des stratégies d’apprentissage d’une langue seconde, nous tenterons de vérifier dans le présent travail si l’âge est un facteur qui influence positivement ou négativement l’apprentissage d’une langue seconde, l’espagnol dans ce cas-ci, par le biais de l’analyse comparative des prépositions a/ en dans deux groupes d’étudiants différents. / Abstract According to Leeneberg's critical period hypothesis from the sixties, a child can acquire a second language approximately until puberty, for afterwards the lateralization of the brain takes place and the acquisition of second language becomes more difficult. Further on, Chomsky’s research would contribute to this theory with the Universal Grammar idea or the inborn universal linguistic elements that we use in order to acquire mother tongue. While the Universal Grammar is still on, the already acquired Mother Tongue continues to develop. As a result, the acquisition of another language during this period becomes a natural process, leading to the conclusion that the earlier a child starts learning a second language, the better its acquisition will be. Therefore and for the purpose of this research, a theoretical framework and the error analysis, the tool allowing the teacher to predict some error in order to create the adequate language strategies for effective second language acquisition, are used. I will try to verify the age-factor influence positively or negatively in the acquisition of a second language, in this special case the Spanish language, by means of the comparative analysis of the a/ en prepositional pair with two different groups of apprentices.

En el trabajo la semántica y pragmática de formas contraídas y no-contraídas en Alemán serán discutidas. Formas contraídas son preposiciones con sufijos flexionales, obligatorias en contextos en las que el contenido descriptivo del sintagma nominal es cierto de un individual o evento (expresiones que excluyen alternativas, referentes deducibles, Situative Unika, infinitivos nominalizados, referentes no específicos). Muchos autores consideran que las formas tienen artículos definidos que fusionan con una preposición. En contrario, propongo un análisis en términos de incorporación semántica en que una preposición tiene rasgos de caso, número y género. Interpretaciones únicas provienen del número singular y del contexto. Interpretaciones no específicas provienen de la semántica y el hecho de que el argumento nominal tiene menos rango que el argumento eventivo. / The semantics and pragmatics of contracted and non-contracted forms found in German will be discussed. Contracted form are prepositions with inflectional endings, and obligatory in contexts in which the descriptive content of the noun fits only one individual or event ("alternative-excluding" expressions, inferable referents, Situative Unika, nominalized infinitives, non-specific referents). Most accounts assume that contracted forms have underlying definite articles which have amalgamated with a preposition. In contrast, I propose to analyse these forms as semantically incorporating prepositions, which are inflected for (singular) number, gender, and case, and combine with noun phrases. Uniqueness effects are derived from singular number and from contextual entailments. Non-specific readings can directly be accounted for since the semantics predicts narrow scope of the nominal argument with respect to the event argument.

Orientador: Juanito Ornelas de Avelar / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T21:58:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pires_MarcosEroni_M.pdf: 658766 bytes, checksum: 0d51879d2d0dee80f48bf84667a72f87 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Seguindo a versão minimalista da Teoria de Princípios e Parâmetros (Chomsky, 1995 e obras posteriores), esta dissertação tem como objetivo propor um quadro formal para capturar propriedades sintáticas e semânticas demonstradas por sintagmas preposicionados locativos (PPLocs do tipo (lá) em cima de, (aqui) debaixo de, (ali) em frente a, (aí) por trás de, (lá) por dentro de, (aqui) para fora de etc.) em sua relação com constituintes nominais no português brasileiro. Assumindo uma configuração clausal para os PP-Locs (Koopman, 1997; Dikken, 2003; Avelar, 2006; Svenonius, 2007), o estudo aborda casos em que o sintagma locativo funciona ou como um modificador restritivo do nome (quando é tradicionalmente classificado como adjunto adnominal), ou como um elemento que estabelece com a categoria nominal uma predicação secundária (quando assume uma função predicativa). A análise explora a ideia de que, para ter uma função restritiva e funcionar como um adjunto adnominal, o PP-Loc precisa ser complemento de uma categoria que codifique informações sobre referencialidade, de modo a atender requerimentos da interface semântica. A abordagem explora algumas consequências do modelo proposto por Kayne (1994), especificamente no que diz respeito ao estatuto das relações especificador-núcleo, assim como a proposta de Starke (1995), segundo a qual as relações de predicação que caracterizam small clauses envolvem uma projeção LexP. Adotando uma estrutura expandida para os sintagmas nominais de acordo com Vangsnes (2001), o estudo conclui que para um PP-Loc ser [+restritivo] precisa ser obrigatoriamente tomado como um complemento de D(eterminante) na computação sintática, portando consigo um traço de dêixis / Abstract: Following the minimalist version of the Principles and Parameters Theory (Chomsky, 1995 and following works), this thesis aims at proposing a formal framework to capture syntactic and semantic properties displayed by prepositional locative phrases (PP-Locs as (lá) em cima de, (aqui) debaixo de, (ali) em frente a, (aí) por trás de, (lá) por dentro de, (aqui) para fora de etc.) in their interaction with nominal constituents in Brazilian Portuguese. Assuming a clausal configuration for PP-Locs (Koopman, 1997; Dikken, 2003; Avelar, 2006; Svenonius, 2007), the study addresses cases in which the locative phrase works either as a restrictive modifier of the name (when it is traditionally classified as an adnominal adjunct), or as an element that provides a secondary predication together with the nominal category (when it assumes a predicative function). The analysis explores the idea that in order to have a restrictive function and to operate as an adnominal adjunct, PP-Loc needs to be a complement of a category that encodes information about referentiality so as to meet the requirements of the semantic interface. The approach explores some consequences of Kayne's (1994) especifically with respect to the status of Spec-head relations; and also Starke's (1995) proposal, according to which predication relations that characterize small clauses involve a LexP projection. Adopting na expanded structure for nominal phrases following Vangsnes (2001), the study concludes that in order to a PP-Loc to be [+restrictive] it must necessarily be taken as a complement of D(eterminant) in the syntactic computation, carrying with it a deixis feature / Mestrado / Gramatica / Mestre em Linguística

Orientador: Marcos Aurelio Pereira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T20:38:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fortes_FabiodaSilva_M.pdf: 852135 bytes, checksum: 6844247a948a6e0fd5ce5eb1b25d6e64 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Os marcadores discursivos (MDs) podem ser definidos, de forma geral, como um grupo bastante amplo de mecanismos verbais (vocábulos, pequenas cláusulas, expressões cristalizadas etc.) que atuam no nível pragmático, inscrevendo a enunciação no discurso, e textual, organizando coesivamente partes do texto (cf. Schiffrin, 1996; Risso et al., 1996). Realizam-se, freqüentemente, por usos não prototípicos de conjunções, preposições e interjeições. Suas propriedades têm sido encontradas em ocorrências discursivas análogas no latim. Caroline Kroon (1995, 1998) destacou um grupo de vocábulos latinos que pareciam conjugar as funções textuais-discursivas supramencionadas: nam, enim, igitur, ergo, autem, vero e at, desenvolvendo extensa pesquisa de seu funcionamento no texto. O objetivo central de nossa pesquisa é verificar nos textos de Donato (séc. IV d.C.) ¿ nas seções De coniunctione, De praepositione e De interiectione, contidos na sua Ars maior ¿ e Prisciano (séc. VI d.C.) ¿ nos livros XIV, parte do XV e XVI, de suas Institutiones grammaticae ¿, a maneira como são neles tratadas as propriedades hoje consideradas ¿textuais¿ e ¿pragmáticas¿, que permitem uma aproximação entre as antigas preposições, conjunções e interjeições latinas e o atual conceito de MDs / Abstract: Discourse markers (DMs) can be defined as a very wide range of verbal mechanisms (words, small clauses, crystallised expressions etc.) that play a role both on a pragmatic level, inscribing enunciation in discourse, and on a textual level, organising parts of the text cohesively (cf. Schiffrin, 1996; Risso et al., 1996). They are expressed by non-prototypical usages of conjunctions, prepositions and interjections. Their properties have been found in analogous discourse occurrencies in Latin. Caroline Kroon (1995, 1998) has developed an extensive research on a number of words that she considered having these same discourse and textual properties: nam, enim, igitur, ergo, autem, vero and at. The core objective of our research is to verify within Donatus¿s Ars maior (c. IV a.D) ¿ in the sections De coniunctione, De praepositione and De interiectione ¿ and Priscian¿s Institutiones grammaticae (c. VI a.D) ¿ in the books XIV, part of XV and XVI ¿ the way the properties considered nowadays as belonging to the ¿textual¿ and ¿pragmatic¿ domains, had been addressed by the Latin grammarians and allow us to make an approximation between the ancient concepts of Latin prepositions, conjunctions and interjections and the current concept of DMs / Mestrado / Mestre em Linguística

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-04-26T20:10:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 anaflaviadeaquinomagalhaes.pdf: 1519022 bytes, checksum: a376517075d1aafef53dcba9fe951d00 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-05-02T00:56:43Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 anaflaviadeaquinomagalhaes.pdf: 1519022 bytes, checksum: a376517075d1aafef53dcba9fe951d00 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-02T00:56:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 anaflaviadeaquinomagalhaes.pdf: 1519022 bytes, checksum: a376517075d1aafef53dcba9fe951d00 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-01-13 / O presente trabalho expõe os resultados da pesquisa desenvolvida no âmbito do mestrado junto ao Programa de Pós-Graduação Profissional em Gestão e Avaliação da Educação Pública da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. O Objetivo foi investigar o processo de implementação da política pública de educação do município de Belo Horizonte no que se refere à proposta curricular. O objetivo é identificar que uso as escolas fazem das novas Proposições Curriculares, a partir de sua efetivação na RME/BH, tendo como referência a experiência de acompanhantes pedagógicos e de professores. O interesse pela pesquisa se dá pela experiência no acompanhamento da implantação dessa política pública quando a pesquisadora atuou como técnica na Secretaria Municipal de Educação. Para esta pesquisa foram consideradas as informações referentes à legislação da Educação Básica nacional, estadual e municipal, além de documentos oficiais da Secretaria Municipal de Educação. Este estudo de caso foi desenvolvido à luz das reflexões de teóricos como Stephan Ball, Jefferson Mainardes e outros que abordam a temática das políticas públicas, bem como Arroyo, Dalben e Zaidan. Foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com os gestores da SMED e aplicados questionários aos Acompanhantes Pedagógicos e professores que atuam na rede municipal de ensino. Os dados obtidos e tratados por meio de análise qualitativa versam sobre a percepção dos entrevistados acerca do uso das proposições e o trabalho que vem sendo desenvolvido nas escolas do Ensino Fundamental da Rede Municipal de Educação de BH. Os resultados da pesquisa apontam para a necessidade de investimentos na formação continuada da equipe gestora da SMED, coordenadores pedagógicos e professores para o favorecimento do processo de implementação da política pública. Os resultados encontrados subsidiaram a construção de um Plano de Ação Educacional com vistas ao redirecionamento de ações que objetivam acelerar, com qualidade, a efetivação das Proposições Curriculares e o consequente fortalecimento da educação na rede pública do município. / The research investigates the process of implementation for the education public policy of the municipality of Belo Horizonte especially in regards to curriculum. The objective is to verify the curricular prepositions that are being utilized in grades K-9 (Ensino Fundamental). The interest in this research came about by the experiences of the author through the implementation of the new education public policy at the Municipal Secretary of Education of Belo Horizonte. For this research, different forms of documents from the Secretary of Education and public policy in state and municipal levels were considered. The research was conducted with strong reflections of the theory from Stephan Ball, Jefferson Mainardes and others who focus on the development of public policy such as Arroyo, Dalben and Zaidan . Structured interviews and surveys were conducted to the pedagogy advisors and teachers who are present members of the municipality. The data collected through qualitative research and analysis of the interviewees in relevance to the prepositions and the work done in the development of the public schools grades k-9. The results seen from the data point to the necessity of investment for continuous training in the SMED (Municipal Secretary of Education), pedagogical coordinators and those teachers benefiting from the new public policy. The results that were found have acted as a basis for a new Plan of Educational Action, with outlook for the redirection to speed up with quality, an implementation of new Curricular Prepositions which will have the ability to strengthen the public municipal school system

This empirical study investigates how English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in Swedish upper secondary schools succeed in their use of English prepositions. EFL learners in Sweden today represent a multitude of nationalities and ethnic groups with many different first languages (L1); therefore, English teaching could be subject to change in order to adapt to the new situation. The study is based on an online survey given to pupils taking “English 7” at upper secondary schools in Stockholm. The study aims to find patterns in how pupils with Swedish as their L1 handle English prepositions and use a control group consisting of pupils with another L1 in a comparative analysis based on language transfer. A teacher of English at the respondents’ school was interviewed to elicit teaching methodology and how they use the language diversity in the classroom when teaching prepositions. Even though it was hypothesised that negative language transfer was a factor, the analysis of the focus group shows that negative language transfer from Swedish did not inhibit the focus group’s ability to choose prepositions compared to the control group in the given context. In contrast, positive transfer from Swedish as an L1 contributed to a substantial increase in success rate. However, no clear connection could be made to teaching methodology as the interviewed teacher did not have any specific method for dealing with prepositions and mainly treated teaching prepositions implicitly. Furthermore, the interviewed teacher did not use language diversity in classroom as a tool for learning.

(anglicky): In my thesis I analyze how Swedish verbal particles change semantics of the verb. Mainly I compare different types of verbal particles: bound and free particles, prepositional and adverbial particles. I observe how meaning of the verb + particle changes from local to metaphorical and further to lexicalized and grammaticalized meaning. Theoretical observations are based on general linguistics, particularly on premises of functional approaches. In the practical part of the thesis I analyze behavior of particles ut and av on a corpus sample. In the final part I compare conclusions made based on the literature with analysis of the language sample. The results show that most often verb + particle are lexicalized phrases. That applies even in cases, when the particle decides whether the action expressed by the verb has reached its end or not, which I considered partially grammaticalized in the theoretical part. Many of the lexicalized particle verbs have transparent meaning, which is possible to duplicate based on analogy. Such particle verbs with metaphorical, transparent meaning are source for great variability in the system of Swedish particle verbs. In the final part of the thesis I show parallels between Swedish verb particles and Czech verbal prefixes. These differ mainly in that the...