Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2013. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study provides a description of Afrikaans adverbs within the framework of proposals set out by Cinque (1999). Previous analyses of adverbs in Afrikaans have generally been done within a non-generative framework (e.g. Oosthuizen 1964, Theron 1964). The aim of the study is to determine whether Cinque’s functional head-based theory provides an adequate framework for the analysis of adverbs in Afrikaans. The main focus is therefore on the functional aspect of adverbs. However, alternative theoretical frameworks, namely those of Ernst (2002), Tenny (2000), and Holmer (2012), are also briefly described. The study is presented with the broad theoretical framework of Minimalist Syntax. Cinque’s research procedure is outlined, starting with his analysis of adverbs in Romance languages and then as it is extended cross-linguistically. Here the focus is especially on the conclusions that Cinque draws with regard to the relative order of adverb types, and that of clausal functional heads. Adverbs in Afrikaans are subsequently analysed in the light of Cinque’s findings. The main question addressed in this study, namely whether Cinque’s hierarchies of adverb and funcional category orders can be successfully applied to Afrikaans, is answered in the affirmative. Despite limitations in the diagnostic procedure, Afrikaans adverb and functional head orders seem to comply with Cinque’s proposed hierarchies. That the facts of Afrikaans adverbs seem to comply with Cinque’s functional theory regarding adverbs, provides support for his proposed framework and also provides further credence to his claims about a universal, cross-linguistic hierarchy of adverb-functional head order. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie bied ’n beskrywig van Afrikaanse bywoorde binne die raamwerk van voorstelle van Cinque (1999). Vorige analises van Afrikaanse bywoorde is grotendeels binne ’n nie-generatiewe raamwerk gedoen (bv. Oosthuizen 1964, Theron 1964). Die doel van die studie is om vas te stel of Cinque se funksionele hoof-gebaseerde teorie ’n toereikende raamwerk bied vir die analise van Afrikaanse bywoorde. Die klem val dus op die funksionele aspek van bywoorde. Alternatiewe teoretiese raamwerke, naamlik die van Ernst (2002), Tenny (2000) en Holmer (2012) word egter ook kortliks beskryf. Die studie word aangebied binne die breë teoretiese raamwerk van Minimalistiese Sintaksis. Cinque se navorsingsprosedure, beginnende met sy analise van bywoorde in Romaanse tale, en daarna soos uitgebrei na tale van ander families, word beskryf. Hierin is die fokus veral op die gevolgtrekkings waartoe Cinque kom rakende die relatiewe volgorde van bywoord-tipes en van funksionele hoofde in sinsverband. Afrikaanse bywoorde word dan in die lig van Cinque se bevindinge geanaliseer. Die hoofvraag wat in die studie aangespreek word, naamlik of Cinque se hierargieë van bywoord- en funksionele hoof-volgordes suksesvol toegepas kan word in Afrikaans, word positief beantwoord. Ondanks beperkings in die toetsingsprosedure, blyk dit dat die volgorde van bywoorde en funksionele hoofde in Afrikaans wel met Cinque se voorgestelde hierargieë ooreenstem. Die bevinding dat die feite van Afrikaans klop met die bewerings van Cinque se funksionele teorie van bywoorde, bied ondersteuning vir die oënskynlike toereikendheid van sy voorgestelde raamwerk, en verskaf verdere geloofwaardig-heid aan sy voorstel van ’n universele hiërargie van bywoord-funksionele hoof- volgorde, oor verskillende tale heen.

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2013. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focuses on the grammatical properties and syntactic derivation of KRY (“get”)-passives in Afrikaans. Analyses of the corresponding phenomenon in other West-Germanic languages are examined and used as background for the study. The aim of the study is to provide a minimalist analysis of the internal structure of Afrikaans KRY-passives; no such analysis has to date been attempted within the framework of Minimalist Syntax. As an introduction to the phenomenon in Afrikaans, some grammatical background about kry and its syntactic distribution is provided, with special attention paid to the use of this verb in passive constructions. A new analysis of Afrikaans KRY-passives is put forward involving a small clause structure and a light verb component. The main hypothesis of the analysis is that eventive and stative KRY-passives are derived in basically the same manner, the important difference being the presence of a [process] and a [stative] feature, respectively, on the small clause light verb. This hypothesis provides support for the idea that the eventual eventive or stative interpretation of the structure is a consequence of the derivational process rather than being based on lexical features that are already present at the start of the derivation. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie fokus op die grammatikale eienskappe en sintaktiese afleiding van KRY-passiewe in Afrikaans. Analises van die ooreenstemmende verskynsel in ander Wes-Germaanse tale word ondersoek en as vertrekpunt vir die studie gebruik. Die doel van die studie is om ‟n minimalistiese analise van die interne struktuur van Afrikaanse KRY-passiewe te ontwikkel; so ‟n analise is nog nie tevore binne die raamwerk van Minimalistiese Sintaksis aangebied nie. As algemene inleiding tot die verskynsel in Afrikaans, word enkele aspekte van kry se grammatikale eienskappe en sintaktiese verspreiding beskryf, met besondere klem op die gebruik van hierdie werkwoord in passiefkonstruksies. ‟n Nuwe analise van KRY-passiewe in Afrikaans word voorgestel, een wat gebruik maak van ‟n beknopte sin (“small clause”)-struktuur en ‟n ligte werkwoord (“light verb”)-komponent. Die vernaamste hipotese van die analise is dat gebeurtenis (“eventive”) en toestand (oftewel statief, “stative”) KRY-passiewe wesenlik op dieselfde manier afgelei word, met een belangrike verskil, naamlik die teenwoordigheid van, onderskeidelik, ‟n [proses]- en ‟n [statief]-kenmerk by die beknopte sin se ligte werkwoord. Dié hipotese verleen steun aan die idee dat die uiteindelike gebeurtenis- of toestand-interpretasie van die struktuur die gevolg is van die afleidingsproses, en dus nie gebaseer is op leksikale kenmerke wat reeds teenwoordig is by die aanvang van die afleiding nie.

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The main goal of this study is to provide a grammatical analysis of small clauses in Afrikaans. A proper analysis of this phenomenon has not yet been attempted in the literature on Afrikaans syntax. However, within the framework of generative grammar, including the most recent versions of Minimalist Syntax, extensive research has been conducted on the small clause phenomenon for a wide range of other languages. In these studies, various types of small clause constructions have been identified. For the purpose of this study, a systematic analysis is given for seven of these small clause construction types, focusing specifically on the Afrikaans data. In order to establish whether the Afrikaans small clause constructions exhibit the same characteristics as those found in other languages, a taxonomy is given of their Dutch, English, West Flemish and Polish counterparts as described by, among others, Hoekstra (1988a, 1992), Bennis, Corver and Den Dikken (1998), Citko (2008) and Haegeman (2010). It is against this background that the characteristics of the different Afrikaans small clause constructions are described. In addition, an explication is given of the various proposals regarding the underlying structure of such constructions. Based on proposals by Oosthuizen (2013), it is argued that a small clause construction is a projection of a particular functional category, namely a defective light verb, sc-v. It is claimed that such a light verb analysis can provide an adequate account of the Afrikaans facts. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die hoofoogmerk van hierdie studie is om ’n grammatikale analise van beknopte sinne (“small clauses”) in Afrikaans te verskaf. ʼn Behoorlike analise van hierdie verskynsel is nog nie tevore aangebied in die literatuur oor Afrikaanse sintaksis nie. Binne die raamwerk van generatiewe grammatika, insluitend die mees onlangse versies van Minimalistiese Sintaksis, is daar egter uitgebreide navorsing gedoen oor die verskynsel van beknopte sinne in ʼn verskeidenheid ander tale. In die betrokke studies is verskeie tipes beknopte sin-konstruksies geïdentifiseer. Vir die doel van hierdie studie word ’n sistematiese analise gegee van sewe van hierdie konstruksie-tipes, met spesifieke fokus op die Afrikaanse data. Ten einde vas te stel of die Afrikaanse beknopte sin-konstruksies dieselfde eienskappe toon as dié in ander tale, word ’n taksonomie verskaf van die ooreenstemmende konstruksies in Nederlands, Engels, Wes-Vlaams en Pools, soos beskryf deur onder meer Hoekstra (1988a, 1992), Bennis, Corver en Den Dikken (1998), Citko (2008) en Haegeman (2010). Dit is teen hierdie agtergrond dat die eienskappe van die verskillende Afrikaanse beknopte sin-konstruksies beskryf word. Verder word ʼn uiteensetting gegee van verskeie voorstelle oor die onderliggende struktuur van sulke konstruksies. Gebaseer op voorstelle deur Oosthuizen (2013), word daar geargumenteer dat ’n beknopte sin-konstruksie ’n projeksie is van ’n spesifieke funksionele kategorie, naamlik ’n defektiewe ligte werkwoord, sc-v. Daar word aangevoer dat so ’n ligte werkwoord-analise ’n toereikende verklaring kan bied van die Afrikaanse feite.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-09T12:28:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-04-08Bitstream added on 2015-04-09T12:48:27Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000805819.pdf: 2526028 bytes, checksum: 6379d920323d341337e29a853f7f5806 (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Esta tese tem por objetivo analisar a língua wauja em seus aspectos fonológicos e morfossintáticos. A língua wauja pertence à família linguística arawak e é falada por aproximadamente 410 pessoas que vivem na aldeia Piyulaga, localizada no Parque Indígena do Xingu, no Estado de Mato Grosso. No presente trabalho, há informações sobre o povo wauja, sua situação linguística, algumas considerações sobre a escola na aldeia e, também, uma explicitação do modelo teórico-metodológico utilizado para a coleta de dados em campo. A revisão bibliográfica aborda as primeiras notícias publicadas sobre os wauja, as listas de palavras, os estudos prévios e a filiação genética da família arawak. Na análise fonológica, foram descritos os segmentos consonantais, vocálicos, aproximantes, padrões silábicos, acento, nasalidade, processos morfofonológicos e, ainda, algumas considerações sobre as convenções ortográficas utilizadas na escola da aldeia. Em relação à morfologia, a tese descreve as seguintes categorias gramaticais: nomes, verbos, adjetivos, advérbios, pronomes, formas interrogativas e quantificadores. Na análise sintática, a tese apresenta os tipos de predicados, as sentenças declarativas, interrogativas, imperativas e as orações complexas, que por sua vez, dividem-se em coordenadas (conjuntivas, adversativas e disjuntivas) e subordinadas (orações complemento, relativas, adverbiais, temporais e causais). Esta tese, portanto, busca contribuir para a documentação, descrição e análise das línguas indígenas brasileiras, em especial, as línguas da família arawak / The aim of this thesis is to analyse the phonological and morphosyntathic aspects of Wauja language. Wauja is part of the Arawak linguistic family and is spoken by approximately 410 people living in Piyulaga village, located in the Xingu Indigenous Park, state of Mato Grosso. This work presents information about Wauja people, their linguistic situation, some considerations on the school of the village, and a presentation of the theoreticalmethodological framework applied to the collecting of field data. The bibliographical review contains the first notes published about Wauja, word lists, early studies of the language, and the genetic affiliation of the Arawak family. In the phonological analysis it is described consonantal, vocalic and approximant segments, syllabic patterns, stress, nasality, morphophonological processes, and some considerations on the orthographical conventions used in the school of the village. Concerning the morphology, this thesis describes the following grammatical categories: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, interrogative forms and quantifiers. In the syntactical analysis, this dissertation presents the kinds of predicates, declarative, interrogative, and imperative sentences. It also presents complex sentences, which can be coordinate (conjunctive, adversative and disjunctive) and subordinated (complement, relative, adverbial, temporal and causal). This thesis therefore aims to contribute to the documentation, description and analysis of Brazilian indigenous languages, specially the languages of Arawak family / FAPESP: 2010/03000-3

The central issue in this thesis is configurationality, which has broadly been defined in terms of a division of the world's languages based on their core syntactic structure. Specifically, languages are traditionally divided into so-called configurational and non-configurational languages. Configurational languages are assumed to be languages with many restrictions on word order, and non-configurational languages are assumed to be languages with very few or no word order restrictions. Many linguists posit a strict division between the two different types of languages. In this thesis I propose a non-derivational approach to configurationality, and I discuss in detail three posited characteristics of non-configurational languages (in comparison to configurational languages): free word order, discontinuous expressions and subject-object asymmetries in binding. I propose a four-way classification of languages instead of a two-way one, based on constraints on annotations on phrase structure nodes, both for argument functions and for information structural roles (such as topic and focus). I propose that this four-way distinction is what underlies configurationality. I show that discontinuous expressions and potentially subject-object symmetries follow from the nature of languages that have traditionally been classified as non-configurational. For my analysis I employ Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a non-derivational framework which is particularly well-suited to account for languages in which grammatical functions are not tied to specific phrase structural positions, due to its parallel architecture. This characteristic of LFG enables me to provide a straightforward classification of languages, by the ability to separate the influence of grammatical functions and information structural roles on word order and phrase structural configuration.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-05-11Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:34:45Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 amaral_tt_me_arafcl.pdf: 1978487 bytes, checksum: cb80de6a279f1b8acef6032d257c265a (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O objetivo principal desta pesquisa é estudar o direcionamento da adjunção de clíticos fonológicos no Português Arcaico (daqui em diante PA), a partir das Cantigas de Santa Maria de Afonso X, o rei Sábio, a fim de se chegar à determinação do direcionamento da cliticização e a pistas da formação de constituintes prosódicos. Trata-se de averiguar a possibilidade de se considerar o grupo clítico como constituinte prosódico relevante no PA. Para comprovar tal possibilidade três fatores foram considerados: as pistas que vêm da música, as que vêm da estrutura poética e o processo de sândi. Como a origem e a evolução dos fenômenos prosódicos do Português ainda são, em grande parte, um dos pontos mais inexplorados da história da nossa língua, a descrição dos fenômenos prosódicos e de sua relação com os processos segmentais de um período passado desta língua (no caso, o PA) constitui uma contribuição importante no sentido de elucidar mais completamente a história da Língua Portuguesa. A metodologia deste trabalho baseia-se no mapeamento dos pronomes oblíquos e reflexivos clíticos. Desta forma, a pesquisa visa uma análise quantitativa e qualitativa dos dados, uma vez que, a partir da quantificação da ocorrência desses pronomes e do seu posicionamento, é possível chegar a afirmações quanto à formação de constituintes prosódicos superiores. As conclusões a que chegamos estão baseadas em fundamentos que levam em consideração aspectos rítmicos das cantigas. Os resultados obtidos através das investigações realizadas acerca da possibilidade de os clíticos do PA assumirem proeminência poética e musical apontam para a consideração da tonicidade do clítico no nível lexical, no momento histórico investigado. Desta forma, o clítico só poderia ser adjungido a um constituinte prosódico que preservasse... / This research aims to study the direction of clitic pronoun adjunction in Archaic Portuguese (AP) (13th century), analyzing the texts of the reminiscent religious medieval cantigas (420 Cantigas de Santa Maria, compiled by Alfonso X, the Wise). The objective is to determine the cliticization direction, in order to find clues to the formation of superior prosodic units. This study intends to show the possibility of the clitic group be considered a relevant prosodic constituent for AP. To prove this possibility we have considered three factors: the metrics of the verses, the music and the sandhi phenomena. As the origin and the evolution of Portuguese prosodic phenomena are one of the most unexplored points of our linguistic history, the description of prosodic phenomena and its relation to segmental processes in a past period of the language represents an important contribution in the sense of enlightening specific points of Portuguese history. The methodology is based on mapping all unstressed pronouns in the cantigas. The analysis is quantitative and qualitative; departing from the quantification of the occurrence of accusative, dative and reflexive pronouns and its positioning, the purpose is to find clues on the formation of superior prosodic constituents. Our considerations are based on rhythmic aspects of the cantigas. Based on the metrics and on the music we could verify that the clitics could have poetic and musical prominence, so we could suggest their tonicity in a lexical level, in that period of time. In this way, clitics only could be attached to a prosodic constituent that preserved the word tonicity in the lexical level, in other words, the clitic group. Concerning sandhi phenomena, we could conclude that, despite the fact that clitcs in the cantigas are unstressed, they behaved as independent prosodic... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Orientador: Gladis Massini-Cagliari / Banca: Daniel Soares da Costa / Banca: Flaviane Romani Fernandes Svartman / Resumo: O objetivo principal desta pesquisa é estudar o direcionamento da adjunção de clíticos fonológicos no Português Arcaico (daqui em diante PA), a partir das Cantigas de Santa Maria de Afonso X, o rei Sábio, a fim de se chegar à determinação do direcionamento da cliticização e a pistas da formação de constituintes prosódicos. Trata-se de averiguar a possibilidade de se considerar o grupo clítico como constituinte prosódico relevante no PA. Para comprovar tal possibilidade três fatores foram considerados: as pistas que vêm da música, as que vêm da estrutura poética e o processo de sândi. Como a origem e a evolução dos fenômenos prosódicos do Português ainda são, em grande parte, um dos pontos mais inexplorados da história da nossa língua, a descrição dos fenômenos prosódicos e de sua relação com os processos segmentais de um período passado desta língua (no caso, o PA) constitui uma contribuição importante no sentido de elucidar mais completamente a história da Língua Portuguesa. A metodologia deste trabalho baseia-se no mapeamento dos pronomes oblíquos e reflexivos clíticos. Desta forma, a pesquisa visa uma análise quantitativa e qualitativa dos dados, uma vez que, a partir da quantificação da ocorrência desses pronomes e do seu posicionamento, é possível chegar a afirmações quanto à formação de constituintes prosódicos superiores. As conclusões a que chegamos estão baseadas em fundamentos que levam em consideração aspectos rítmicos das cantigas. Os resultados obtidos através das investigações realizadas acerca da possibilidade de os clíticos do PA assumirem proeminência poética e musical apontam para a consideração da tonicidade do clítico no nível lexical, no momento histórico investigado. Desta forma, o clítico só poderia ser adjungido a um constituinte prosódico que preservasse... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This research aims to study the direction of clitic pronoun adjunction in Archaic Portuguese (AP) (13th century), analyzing the texts of the reminiscent religious medieval cantigas (420 Cantigas de Santa Maria, compiled by Alfonso X, the Wise). The objective is to determine the cliticization direction, in order to find clues to the formation of superior prosodic units. This study intends to show the possibility of the clitic group be considered a relevant prosodic constituent for AP. To prove this possibility we have considered three factors: the metrics of the verses, the music and the sandhi phenomena. As the origin and the evolution of Portuguese prosodic phenomena are one of the most unexplored points of our linguistic history, the description of prosodic phenomena and its relation to segmental processes in a past period of the language represents an important contribution in the sense of enlightening specific points of Portuguese history. The methodology is based on mapping all unstressed pronouns in the cantigas. The analysis is quantitative and qualitative; departing from the quantification of the occurrence of accusative, dative and reflexive pronouns and its positioning, the purpose is to find clues on the formation of superior prosodic constituents. Our considerations are based on rhythmic aspects of the cantigas. Based on the metrics and on the music we could verify that the clitics could have poetic and musical prominence, so we could suggest their tonicity in a lexical level, in that period of time. In this way, clitics only could be attached to a prosodic constituent that preserved the word tonicity in the lexical level, in other words, the clitic group. Concerning sandhi phenomena, we could conclude that, despite the fact that clitcs in the cantigas are unstressed, they behaved as independent prosodic... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Orientador: Edwiges Maria Morato / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T13:15:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ferrari_NataliaLuisa_M.pdf: 1503830 bytes, checksum: e361da108ca9fe8bf9094c82c9320881 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Este trabalho busca caracterizar o funcionamento da dêixis discursiva (DD), criadora de um foco de atenção comum pela remissão anafórica a conteúdos contextuais (Marcuschi, 1997; Cavalcante, 2003), em interações entre sujeitos afásicos (sujeitos com alterações de linguagem decorrentes de episódios neurológicos) e não afásicos participantes do Centro de Convivência de Afásicos (CCA) da UNICAMP. Nosso interesse nesse contexto interativo deve-se à abordagem do processo dêitico e do anafórico feita pela Afasiologia Linguística: a produtividade do primeiro é considerada uma estratégia meramente compensatória para o déficit de seleção lexical dos sujeitos afásicos (Lehrer, 1974 apud Varley, 1993; Crystal, 1984; Goodglass, 1993), ao passo que o segundo, associado à ideia de continuidade referencial restrita à coindexação um termo ao seu antecedente explícito, é tomado como uma operação cognitiva perturbada em decorrência da lesão cerebral (Caplan e Rigalleau, 2004; Edwards e Varlokosta, 2007). Concebendo os processos referenciais tal como o fazem os estudos textuais-interativos de orientação sociocognitivista (Marcuschi, 2001; Koch, 2002; Mondada e Dubois 2003 [1995]), tivemos por objetivo: i) analisar a função dêitica e a anafórica da DD, atentando para as semelhanças e diferenças entre sujeitos afásicos e não afásicos, e ii) qualificar o funcionamento desse processo referencial no contexto de fala em interação escolhido a partir de seus aspectos característicos observados. Para cumprir tais objetivos, constituímos um corpus de 10 episódios conversacionais dos quais participam afásicos e não afásicos, pela observação de registros audiovisuais de 22 encontros do grupo e da seleção e transcrição de fragmentos conversacionais, baseada no sistema de notação proposto por Morato et al (2011). Esse sistema, que destaca a multimodalidade característica da fala em interação, nos permitiu observar a atuação de recursos verbais e não verbais na construção referencial. Observamos a ampla emergência da DD por dêiticos demonstrativos em função substantiva, especialmente na fala dos sujeitos afásicos, ao passo que na dos não afásicos, houve a presença de nomes conceituais na expressão referencial dêitica. Nesse processo, também compareceram recursos indiciais não verbais, tais como o gesto de apontar e o direcionamento corporal e do olhar, conforme já observara Vezali (2011), cuja carência descritiva não lhes retira a função de referir, mas qualifica a complexidade da referenciação da DD, responsável por chamar a atenção para elementos relevantes do cenário (Hanks, 2008). Além disso, ao contribuir para a construção do foco discursivo, a DD atua na construção argumentativa e tópica do texto conversacional / Abstract: The present study aims to characterize the referential process of Discourse Deixis (DD), which creates a common attention focus through anaphoric remission to contextual contents (Marcuschi, 1997; Cavalcante, 2003), in interactions between aphasics (brain damaged individuals with language difficulties) and non-aphasics that participate in the weekly meetings of the Aphasics Community Center (ACC). Our interest in that interactive context is due to the Linguistic Aphasiology¿s approach to the deictic and anaphoric processes in aphasic speech: the productivity of the former is considered a merely compensatory strategy for the aphasic lexical access deficit (Lehrer, 1974 apud Varley, 1993; Crystal, 1984; Goodglass, 1993), whereas the latter, due to the idea of correferentiality restrict to the coindexation of a certain item to its explicit antecedent, is taken as a cognitive operation disturbed by the brain injury (Caplan e Rigalleau, 2004; Edwards e Varlokosta, 2007). Adopting the Sociocognitive Textual Linguistics conception of referential processes (Marcuschi, 2001; Koch, 2002; Mondada e Dubois 2003 [1995]), our main goals were: i) to analyze the deictic and anaphoric functions which characterize DD and ii) qualify the usage of that referential process in talk-in-interaction considering its characteristics in the chosen context. In order to achieve those goals, we constituted a corpus composed by 10 aphasic and non-aphasic interaction episodes, by the observation of the audiovisual records of 22 CCA meetings, selection and transcription of conversational excerpts, based on the notation system proposed by Morato et al (2011) which highlights the multimodality which characterizes talk-in-interaction. That allowed us to observe how verbal and nonverbal resources took part of referential construction. We could observe the emergence of DD by demonstrative deictics in substantive function, especially in aphasic speech, whereas in non-aphasic speech there was also the presence of conceptual names in the deictic referential expression. In this process there were also nonverbal indexical resources such as pointing and body and eye directing, as Vezali (2011) had already observed, which lack of descriptive information didn't take the referential function away but qualified its complexity instead, since DD is responsible for highlighting relevant elements of the setting (Hanks 2008). Furthermore, by contributing to the discourse focus construction, DD acts in the argumentative and discourse topic construction of the conversational text / Mestrado / Linguistica / Mestra em Linguística

This study investigates the development of morphology in the interlanguage of English learners of Xhosa. A quasi-longitudinal research design is used to trace development in the oral interlanguage of six learners of Xhosa for a period of eight months. The elicitation tasks employed range from fairly unstructured conversation tasks to highly structured sentence-manipulation tasks. The learners have varying levels of competence at the beginning of the study and they are exposed to input mainly in formal contexts of learning. One of the aims of the study is to investigate whether the features of interlanguage identified in other studies appear in the learner language in this study. Most other studies discussed in the literature have investigated the features of the interlanguage produced by learners of analytic and inflectional languages. However, this study analyses the interlanguage of learners of an agglutinative language. Studies of other languages have concluded that learners do not use inflectional or agreement morphology at early stages of development and this conclusion is tested for learners of an agglutinative language in this study. Since agreement and inflectional morphology play a central role in conveying meaning in Xhosa, it is found that learners use morphology from the beginning of the learning process. Although forms may be used incorrectly and the functions of forms may be restricted, morphemes appear in the interlanguage of learners of this study earlier than other studies predict. One of the characteristics of early interlanguage and an early form of learner language called the Basic Variety (Klein & Perdue 1997) is the lack of morphology, but this feature proves to be inadequate as a measure of early development in the interlanguage of learners of a language such as Xhosa. This study concludes, therefore, that the presence of morphology in the interlanguage of learners of Xhosa cannot be an indicator of advanced language development.

Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished