Orientador: Carolina Maria Rodríguez Zuccolillo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T03:47:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aquino_JoseEdicarlosde_M.pdf: 1661997 bytes, checksum: 0895ff2678a8b8d563159e97f07233cb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Os sentidos da expressão língua materna no período inicial do processo de gramatização brasileira constituem o objeto de investigação deste trabalho, que assume uma concepção histórica e discursiva do sentido e se assenta em um campo teórico-metodológico que considera constitutiva a relação entre história do saber metalinguístico e história da língua, a História das Ideias Linguísticas. Para situar historicamente a questão, realiza-se primeiramente um estudo da emergência da expressão língua materna no Ocidente. Partindo-se da análise geral dos primeiros registros conhecidos da expressão no Ocidente, analisa-se especificadamente o funcionamento da expressão nas gramáticas de Júlio Ribeiro e de Alfredo Gomes no Brasil da virada do século XIX para o XX, de forma a compreender como ressoam nas obras dos autores brasileiros os sentidos de língua materna construídos ao longo de séculos na Europa. A hipótese apresentada é a de que língua materna é uma construção histórica cujos sentidos acompanham fortemente o processo de gramatização e constituição das línguas nacionais e do Estado nacional. Diante da ausência de registros anteriores ao século XII, a expressão língua materna é considerada uma invenção medieval, empregada inicialmente em latim nos textos da Igreja, como forma de contrapor essa língua aos vernáculos emergentes. Na passagem da Idade Média ao Renascimento, momento da gramatização massiva das línguas do mundo a partir da tradição greco-latina, realiza-se a superposição entre os sentidos de língua materna e língua nacional, em um passo que leva à construção da evidência de língua materna como primeira língua, língua do território, língua que se contrapõe à língua estrangeira, sentidos mobilizados na Antiguidade Clássica pelas expressões patrius sermo e patria lingua, o que depõe contra o próprio mérito da evidência sofrido pela expressão língua materna. No Brasil, onde gramatização também está em correspondência com a formação da nação e com a questão da língua nacional, os sentidos da expressão língua materna apontam questões como o reconhecimento de uma identidade linguística brasileira e a legitimação de um saber sobre a língua portuguesa no país / Abstract: The senses of the expression "mother language" in the initial period of the Brazilian process of grammatization are the subject of research in this work, which takes a historical and discursive conception of the sense and is based on the History of Linguistic Ideas, a theoretical and methodological field that considers as constitutive the relation between the history of metalinguistic knowledge and the history of the language. In order to situate the issue historically, it has been carried out, firstly, a study of the emergence of the expression "mother language" in the West. Based on the general analysis of the first known records of such expression in the West, the functioning of this expression in the grammars of Julio Ribeiro and Alfredo Gomes at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century in Brazil has been specifically analyzed, aiming to understand how the senses of "mother language" built throughout the centuries in Europe resonated in the works of the Brazilian authors. The hypothesis presented here is that mother language is a historical construction whose senses follow strongly the grammatization process and the constitution of the national languages and of the National State. Given the absence of records before the twelfth century, the expression "mother language" is considered a medieval invention, initially used in Latin in the texts of the Church, as a way to counter this language to the emerging vernaculars. In the passage from the Middle Age to the Renaissance, a time of massive grammatization of the languages of the world from the Greco-Latin tradition, it is possible to state that there was an overlap between the senses of "mother language" and "national language", in a step that leads to building up the evidence of mother language as a first language, a language of the territory, a language that is opposed to the foreign language, senses deployed in Classical Antiquity by the expressions "patrius sermo" and "patria lingua", which argues against the merit of the evidence occurred with the expression "mother language". In Brazil, where grammatization is also in correspondence with the formation of the Nation and with the issue of the national language, the senses of the expression "mother language" raise issues as the recognition of a Brazilian linguistic identity and the validation of a certain knowledge about the Portuguese language in the country / Mestrado / Linguistica / Mestre em Linguística

Orientador: Suzi Frankl Sperber / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T02:25:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santi_Julio_M.pdf: 2956974 bytes, checksum: 33010fe8b1c0be1edcf0254f1cabbdd2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Análise de seis contos do livro "Primeiras Estórias", de Guimarães Rosa. O ponto de partida da análise foi uma estrutura linguística chamada voz média, uma espécie de síntese entre a voz ativa e voz passiva. Com ponto de partida linguístico, o trabalho se inspira na obra Was Geht Uns Noah An, de Wolfgang Von Schöfer, e tenta resgatar significados de palavras que se perderam ao longo do tempo. Assim, encontra-se um ponto de diálogo com a obra de Suzi Frankl Sperber, que defende que Guimarães Rosa utiliza um recurso que a autora chamou de abertura do sintagma e também o de fundir espaço e personagem na narrativa com o objetivo de potencializar, ampliar os sentidos. A presente dissertação explora as dimensões simbólicas da obra de Rosa, mostrando de que maneira o autor se abria e investigava os mistérios da vida. Foram levantados alguns temas que se repetem em todos os contos, e a partir de uma análise minuciosa sobre os contos, encontra-se um tema principal que é desenvolvido: a importância de viver é compreendida através do aprimoramento da alma - e isso se dá através do conhecimento não de ordem racional, mas prática / Abstract: Analysis of six shorts stories from the book "Primeiras Estórias", written by João Guimarães Rosa. The analysis' starting point was a linguistic structure called "Middle Voice", some kind of synthesis between active and passive voice. This work is inspired in the book from Wolfgang Von Schöfer, Was Geht Uns Noah An, and tries to retrieve some word's meanings that have got lost through time. Therefore, this work was able to dialogue with the work from Suzi Frankl Sperber, who defends that Rosa uses a technique that Suzi has called "syntagm 's opening", and also an important structural characteristic: Rosa merges the space and the character in the narrative, in order to amplify the possible meanings and interpretations. This current dissertation explores the symbolic dimension of six shorts stories from Primeiras Estórias and tries to analyze how the author explored the meaning and mysteries of life. Some subjects were noticed, and after a detailed analysis of each short story, a main subject is found: the importance of living is understood as the development of the soul - and this happens only through the acquisition of practical knowledge / Mestrado / Literatura Brasileira / Mestre em Teoria e Critica Literaria

Le travail a porté sur la perception du trait de voisement des consonnes occlusives en position initiale et dont l’indice acoustique principal est le Délai d’Etablissement du Voisement (DEV: délai entre la fin de l’occlusion de la consonne et le début des vibrations des cordes vocales; VOT en anglais). <p>Une première étude a concerné la ‘bascule phonologique’ c’est à dire le passage d’un mode de perception universel à un mode de perception phonologique spécifique à la langue. L'analyse des variations du rythme cardiaque de nourrissons francophones exposés à des syllabes /də/ et /tə/ variant sur un continuum de DEV a montré une sensibilité aux frontières universelles (-30 et +30 ms de DEV) à 4 mois et à la frontière phonologique du français (0 ms de DEV) à 8 mois. <p>L'objectif d'une autre étude a été de déterminer si la maturation de la perception du voisement était liée à l’apprentissage de la lecture ou si elle résultait d’une maturation cognitive plus globale. Des enfants de 5, 6 ,7 et 8 ans ainsi que des adultes francophones ont été soumis à des tâches d’identification et de discrimination pour trois types de continua différents :voisement (syllabes (/də/ et /tə/) ;couleurs (jaune et vert) et expressions faciales (joie-peur). Alors que la perception catégorielle des couleurs était présente dès 5 ans, le développement de la perception des expressions faciales était plus tardif et similaire à celui du voisement, ce qui suggère que ce dernier ne dépend pas de la lecture. <p>Par ailleurs, les potentiels auditifs évoqués par la présentation des syllabes /də/ et /tə/ dont le DEV variait entre -75 et +75 ms ont été enregistrés chez des adultes francophones. L’analyse de la morphologie (simple vs double pic) de deux sous-composantes de la N100 (N1b et Na), a montré chez ces sujets adultes une sensibilité résiduelle aux frontières universelles de voisement auxquelles les nourrissons de 4 mois étaient également sensibles. Par contre, aucune sensibilité résiduelle à la frontière phonologique du français n'est apparue. <p>Les implications théoriques de l’ensemble de ces résultats sont discutées à la lumière des modèles existants.<p> / Doctorat en sciences psychologiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

By investigating the discursive rules of hermeneutics and diagnosis, this study seeks to problematize particular presuppositions—most notably the presupposition of sense—of the modern disciplinary hermeneutic context. Following Barthes's consideration of the Greek modus of the middle voice as a useful notion in conceptualizing the modern scene of writing, the study advances itself toward conceptualizing a configuration of the modern reading scene in its middle-voiced permutation. In such a scene, the moment a reading attempts to read itself from without its parameters, it arrives at a spatial and temporal crisis (from the Greek krin-ein; to decide) between its action and the place (of not sense and not not sense) which exceeds the parameters delimiting the action of reading itself, but which nevertheless conditions its possibility. The grammar of this crisis is the middle voice; its condition, in the context of this study, is configured as madness. Madness is thus configured as a function of interrogation, reading and diagnosis. At the nucleus of the modem reading scene itself, this thesis opens with an introduction of the terms middle voice, crisis and madness, and then offers a consideration of three permutations of reading: Chapter Two, Chapter Three and the space between. Chapter Two considers a fictional representation of writing in the middle voice through a reading of Nabokov's Lolita, a text of fiction in the form of a "mad writer's" diary, whose historical reception has been marked by acts of appropriative censorship and clinical diagnosis. Chapter Three considers a permutation of the middlevoiced reading through a reading of Gertrude Stein's lectures on writing. This consideration is framed by fragments from the writing of Maurice Blanchot, connecting reading (as conceived by Stein) to madness, figuring the convergence of reading and madness in writing. The Interchapter, between chapters Two and Three, is an aporetic space entitled "Madness Itself." By allowing a brief and partial view of the modem clinical psychiatric setting, and by calling into question the parameters of the surrounding "chapters" themselves, this section seeks to perform, structurally and thematically, a moment of crisis recalling the middle voice. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

MA (Xitsonga) / Eka Senthara ya M. E. R. Mathivha ya Tindzimita Xiafrika, Vutshila na Mfuwo / Tindzimi to hambanahambana ta misava ti tirhisa tindlela to hambana ku tihluvukisa hi tlhelo ra ntivomarito. Maendlelo yo tanihi khoyineji, ku lomba, ku vumba rivitinkatsano, nhlanganiso, mpfelelo na mavulwankatso, mbuyelelo swi na nkoka swinene eku vumbeni ka marito eka ririmi. Eka Xitsonga, a hi maendlelo hinkwawo lama kombisiweke laha henhla ya tirhisiwaka, kambe endlelo ra mbuyelelo ri tirha swinene. Valavisisi vo fana na Novotna (2000), Nintemann (2016), Lidz (2000), Kallotaj (2016), Stols (2008), Rubino (2005), Osam, Marfo na Agyekum (2013) Wanja (2014) na van’wana va endlile ndzavisiso hi mbuyelelo eka tindzimi to hambanahambana. Hambileswi endlelo leri ri tirhaka swinene, vulavisisi hi tlhelo ra endlelo leri bya kayivela swinene eka Xitsonga. Mbuyelelo hilaha xiphemu xo karhi xa rito kumbe rito hinkwaro ri vuyeleriwaka ku vumba rito rin’wana leri nga ta va na nhlamuselo yo hambana na loko rito kumbe xiphemu xa rito xi nga si vuyeleriwa. Xikongomelo xa ndzavisiso lowu i ku kambisisa hilaha mbuyelelo wu humelelaka hakona eka Xitsonga, ku kombisa na ku hlamusela swiphemu swa ririmi leswi khumbekaka eka mbuyelelo, ku ntlawahata mbuyelelo wa marito eka Xitsonga na ku kombisa nkoka wa mbuyelelo eka Xitsonga. Ndzavisiso lowu wu simekiwile ehenhla ka modele wa Marantz (1982) wa ku kopa na ku fambelanisa (Copy and Associate Model) lowu welaka eka thiyori ya Autosegmental ya 1982. Ndzavisiso lowu wu landzelela maendlelo ya nkoka ku karhi ku tirhisiwa maendlelo ya khopasi ku kuma mahungu. Mahungu ya tsavuriwa ku suka eka matsalwa yo hambanahambana ya Xitsonga. Mahungu ya aviwa hi tinxakakulu timbirhi ta mbuyelelo, ku nga, mbuyelelo wo hetiseka na mbuyelelo wa xiphemu. Marito lama ma tsariwa ku karhi ku khwatihatiwa swiphemu leswi nga vuyelela. Endzeni ka swiangi ku kombisiwa xihluvi xa mbulavulo laha rito ri welaka eka xona. Ehansi ka rito rin’wana na rin’wana ku hlamuseriwa leswi mbuyelelo wu humeleriseke xiswona. Mulavisisi u tlhela a languta nhlamuselo ya ritoxidzi (RX) ku nga si humelela mbuyelelo ku yi pimanisa na nhlamuselo ya rito leri endzhaku ka mbuyelelo (RM) ku vona loko ku vile na ku hundzuka ka tinhlamuselo. . / NRF

This dissertation offers a novel quantitative method for assessing an actor's subjective temporal orientation. Our method involves the use of supervised machine learning techniques in concert with natural language processing tools and linguistic principles. We suggest our method may offer a clandestine technique for extracting aspects of an actor’s temporal orientations from right behind their back. This capacity occurs because of the unique ways time references are reflected in language syntax. This reflection does not simply occur in face-to-face spoken interactions, but also resides in recorded vocal transcripts and within textual documents articulated by speakers for a social audience (e.g., political speeches). . From a social theory point of view, we argue that our technique can help objectify some of the major links theorists have long made between the temporal features of mind, subjective meaning, and social processes. Temporal orientation has long been defined as a tripartite mental process. Edmund Husserl famously defined this process as involving retention (a mental focus on past), presentation (a mental focus on the present) or protention (a mental envisioning of the future). From a pure phenomenology perspective, Husserl’s innovation was to link this mental interlocking process with meaning-making. For Husserl, it was directly through an actor’s temporal orientation that meaning became variably constituted and the problem of subjectivity emerged. From a sociological point of view, it is primarily through Alfred Schutz’s formulation of social phenomenology that Husserl’s tripartite system was opened to accommodate the influence of the social in meaning-making. This opening has possessed a long-standing contradiction. For Schutz, endogenous social structure could affect where an actor temporally orients. The resulting implication is that social structure could have a direct effect on how actors assign specific meanings in social systems. Even more, social structure could facilitate shared temporal orientations among actors. However, Schutz also promoted the idea that different temporal orientations could explain how different meanings could be assigned to the same social object by disparate actors. This possibility served as the centerpiece of Schutz’s well-known methodological critique of Max Weber’s direct linkage between subjective meaning, motive, and empathetic based interpretations of social action. To carry out our efforts to quantify how the subjective processes of temporal orientation appear to be influenced by endogenous social processes, we employed our algorithm on three different text-based data sets. We suggest these datasets possess strong reflections of the social world. The first dataset entails a collection of matched twitter tweets that correspond to Trump’s reelection bid and Biden’s challenge during the 2020 period. In this dataset, our method illustrates how both candidates appear to have different temporal orientations despite being bounded by a similar social event. We suggest this finding may reflect the relationship between what Schütz called inner duration and the influence of external stocks of knowledge (i.e., external structures.) The second dataset corresponds to a recorded conversational transcript of the Cuban missile crisis, taken from President Kennedy’s Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm) on the 6th of October in 1962. Using our algorithm, we offer objective measures of homogenous temporal orientations of committee members that are consistent with meso-group conformity. We suggest that our method may offer a novel way of measuring group conformity in general. The third dataset consists of the State of the Union Corpora (SOU). In this dataset, we apply our algorithm to identify changes in temporal orientation occurring among a single President’s entire collection of SOU speeches. Furthermore, we compare the average temporal orientation of the Presidents in relation to various social categories, such as party affiliation and societal events. The scope of the Presidents inventoried for temporal orientation is restricted from Eisenhower to Biden.

This study focuses on the predicate argument structure (PAS) of a sub-class of verbs in Xitsonga - verbs of change of possession: give, contribute, future having, providing, obtaining and verbs of exchange. It is shown that these verbs select various theta roles to form their PAS in the different alternations allowed in this language. The effects of the applicative {-el-} and causative {-is-} verbal affixes on the PAS of such verbs are also considered. The study confirms the fact that the ordering of objects in ditransitive verbs is determined by an interplay of syntactic and semantic factors. Ambiguity arises in the case of two animate objects. In this case the object with a definite reading will appear adjacent to the verb. / African Languages / M. A. (Arican Languages)

This thesis is essentially a portfolio of four disjoint yet thematically related articles that deal with some semantic aspect or another of natural language conditionals. The thesis opens with a brief introductory chapter that offers a short yet opinionated historical overview and a theoretical background of several important semantic issues of conditionals. The second chapter then deals with the issue of truth values and conditions of indicative conditionals. So-called Gibbard Phenomenon cases have been used to argue that indicative conditionals construed in terms of the Ramsey Test cannot have truth values. Since that conclusion is somewhat incredible, several alternative options are explored. Finally, a contextualised revision of the Ramsey Test is offered which successfully avoids the threats of the Gibbard Phenomenon. The third chapter deals with the question of where to draw the so-called indicative/ subjunctive line. Natural language conditionals are commonly believed to be of two semantically distinct types: indicative and subjunctive. Although this distinction is central to many semantic analyses of natural conditionals, there seems to be no consensus on the details of its nature. While trying to uncover the grounds for the distinction, we will argue our way through several plausible proposals found in the literature. Upon discovering that none of these proposals seem entirely suited, we will reconsider our position and make several helpful observations into the nature of conditional sentences. And finally, in light of our observations, we shall propose and argue for plausible grounds for the indicative/subjunctive distinction.distinction. The fourth chapter offers semantics for modal and amodal natural language conditionals based on the distinction proposed in the previous chapter. First, the nature of modal and amodal suppositions will be explored. Armed with an analysis of modal and amodal suppositions, the corresponding conditionals will be examined further. Consequently, the syntax of conditionals in English will be uncovered for the purpose of providing input for our semantics. And finally, compositional semantics in generative grammar will be offered for modal and amodal conditionals. The fifth and final chapter defends Modus Ponens from alleged counterexamples. In particular, the chapter offers a solution to McGee’s infamous counterexamples. First, several solutions offered to the counterexamples hitherto are all argued to be inadequate. After a couple of observations on the counterexamples’ nature, a solution is offered and demonstrated. the solution suggests that the semantics of embedded natural language conditionals is more sophisticated than their surface syntax indicates. The heart of the solution is a translation function from the surface form of natural language conditionals to their logical form. Finally, the thesis ends with a conclusion that briefly summarises the main conclusions drawn in its preceding chapters.

This study falls under the broad area of child language acquisition with specific focus on Shona morphosyntax. The understanding that knowledge of the nature of child language contributes to the sustainability of language acquisition matters forms the basis of the investigation. A qualitative approach is followed in the study, specifically focusing on the constraints on the development of inflectional morphemes (IMs) in the acquisition of nouns and verbs in child Shona. The study investigates the development of child Shona inflectional morphology and how morphology interacts with syntax. The constraints that operate in the acquisition of Shona are identified. The study refers to linguistic theories for an account of the development of child Shona morphosyntax. The study is based on the understanding that knowledge of the nature of child language contributes to the sustainability of language acquisition matters. The data used in this study is collected from four Shona speaking children. The ages of the children range from two years (2; 0) to three years and two months (3; 2). Two female and two male children participated in this study. The primary method of data collection used in this study is the naturalistic method, while elicitation is used to elicit plural formation. The results indicate that child Shona morphosyntax is characterized by omission of the various inflectional morphemes on nouns and verbs, while the lexical morphemes are retained. The child Shona IM is phonologically different from the adult Shona IM. This is because the children are constrained and hence use simplification strategies in order to try to be faithful to the input grammar. The noun and verb IMs are produced in the form of a reduced syllable, because the children dropped the consonant in the IM syllable and retained the vowel. The study reveals that the development of child Shona morphosyntax is based on pivotal constituencies of the sentence. These pivots are the nouns and verbs that are used by the children. The study identifies constraints that operate on the process of child Shona development as phonological, morphological, semantic, visibility and frequency constraints. The finding that is arrived at through this study is that syntax is in place before morphology. / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

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