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Syntactic change in portuguese : relative clauses and the position on the adjective in the noun phrase

Com período co-tutela em University of London (Orientador:Theodora Bynon).
Brasil: Orientador: Fernando Luiz Tarallo / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-13T23:31:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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Previous issue date: 1989 / Resumo em portugues não impresso na obra / Abstract: The purpose of this dissertation is the examination of syntactic changes in the Portuguese Noun Phrase. The data on which it is based consist of successive texts which are taken as representative of consecutive periods of the Portuguese language, from the 14th c onwards. Some information about present-day Brazilian Portuguese also given. Firstly, the position of the Adjective with respect to the Noun in the Noun Phrase 15 investigated within a word order change framework. According to the statistical analysis of the Adjective, Old/Middle Portuguese has shown a predominant order adjective/Noun (AN) whereas Modern Portuguese is predominantly Noun/Adjective (NA). The data available show a sharp decrease in the use of of Adjectives around the 18th C. After that time Postposition replaced Anteposition as the preferred order...Note: The complete abstract is available with the full electronic digital thesis or dissertations / Doutorado / Doutor em Linguística

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:repositorio.unicamp.br:REPOSIP/268977
Date27 April 1990
CreatorsCohen, Maria Antonieta Amarante de Mendonça
ContributorsUNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE CAMPINAS, Bynon, Theodora, Tarallo, Fernando, 1951-1992
Publisher[s.n.], Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística
Source SetsIBICT Brazilian ETDs
LanguageInglês
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Format257f : il., application/pdf
Sourcereponame:Repositório Institucional da Unicamp, instname:Universidade Estadual de Campinas, instacron:UNICAMP
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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