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Subordination in Medieval Portuguese

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Subordination in Medieval Portuguese

Identification

  • Project identification: Subordinação em Português Medieval [ PTDC/MHC-LIN/4564/2012 ]
  • Group: LiFE – Formal and Experimental Linguistics
  • Principal Investigator: Alexandra Fiéis
  • Duration: May 2013 – Apr. 2015
  • Funding entity: FCT/MCTES
  • Keywords: Subordination; Complementation; Old Portuguese; Syntax.

Description

The main objectives of the project were to investigate syntactic and semantic dependencies in subordinate clauses in Old Portuguese. With that purpose in mind, we aimed at describing the mechanisms of complex sentence’s formation, by characterizing complementation and adverbial structures; and, on the other hand, to determine the level of autonomy that exists between functional structure and the semantic value of the categories involved in the process. For that reason, we analysed the following phenomena:

8i) Non-finite subordination structures (gerunds, present participles, inflected and non-inflected infinitives);
(ii) Finite and non-finite complement structures;
(iii) Adverbial constructions;
(iv) Clefts.

Team

Alexandra Fiéis (principal investigator)
Ana Madeira
Maria Lobo
Maria Francisca Xavier
Cláudia Martins
Miguel Magalhães (research grant holder)
Raquel Oliveira (research grant holder)
João Costa
Roberta D’Alessandro (Leiden University)
Fátima Oliveira (Linguistics Centre, Universidade do Porto)
Ioanna Sitaridou (University of Cambridge)

Publications

Articles

Costa, João; Fiéis, Alexandra and Lobo, Maria (2015). Input variability and late acquisition: Clitic misplacement in European Portuguese. Lingua, [online] 161, pp.10-26. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002438411400117X [Accessed 28 Sep. 2017]. ISSN 0024-3841.
DOI 10.1016/j.lingua.2014.05.009

Fiéis, Alexandra; Lobo, Maria and Martins, Cláudia (2016). O particípio presente no português antigo. Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, [online] (1), pp.417-440. Available at: http://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/APL/article/view/1598/1421 [Accessed 27 Sep. 2017]. ISSN 2183-9077.
DOI 10.21747/ 2183-9077/rapla18

Chapters in books/proceedings

Carrilho, Ernestina; Fiéis, Alexandra; Lobo, Maria and Pereira, Susana, eds. (2016). Introduction. In: E. Carrilho, A. Fiéis, M. Lobo and S. Pereira, eds., Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 10. Selected papers from “Going Romance” 28 Lisbon. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp.vii-x. ISBN 9789027203908.
DOI 10.1075/rllt.10

Fiéis, Alexandra and Lobo, Maria (2015). Estruturas clivadas num corpus de português antigo. In A. Fiéis, M. Lobo and A. Madeira, orgs., O Universal e o Particular – uma vida a comparar. Homenagem a Maria Francisca Xavier. Lisboa: Edições Colibri, pp.143-153.

Fiéis, Alexandra and Madeira, Ana (2017). The Portuguese Inflected Infinitive across Varieties. In: P. Barbosa, M. C. Paiva and C. Rodrigues, eds., Studies on Variation in Varieties of Portuguese. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp.279-299. ISBN 9789027258137.
DOI 10.1075/ihll.14

Fiéis, Alexandra and Madeira, Ana (2014). O infinitivo flexionado na diacronia do português. In: A. Moreno et al., orgs., Textos Selecionados do XXIX Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística. [PDF] Porto: APL, pp.255-264. Available at: https://apl.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/25_FIEIS.pdf [Accessed 13 Oct. 2017]. ISBN 978-989-97440-3-5.

Fiéis, Alexandra and Madeira, Ana (2013). Modals and tense in Contemporary European Portuguese and in Old Portuguese. In: E. Labeau and J. Bres, eds., Evolution in Romance Verbal Systems. Bern: Peter Lang, pp.261-284. ISBN 978-3-0343-1438-1.

Fiéis, Alexandra and Madeira, Ana (2013). Construções infinitivas com verbos causativos e percetivos na diacronia do português. In: F. Silva, I. Falé, I. Pereira and J. Veloso, orgs., Textos Selecionados do XXVIII Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística. [PDF] Coimbra: APL, pp.341-357. Available at: https://apl.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/FIEIS_MADEIRA_2013.pdf [Accessed 13 Oct. 2017]. ISBN 978-989-97440-2-8.

Martins, Cláudia (2017). Funcionamento verbal do particípio presente no português antigo. In: M. Romero, R. Álvarez and E. Mato, eds., Gallaecia: estudos de lingüística portuguesa e galega. [PDF] Santiago de Compostela: Servizo de Publicacións Campus Vida, pp.267-285. Available at: http://www.usc.es/libros/index.php/spic/catalog/book/1080 [Accessed 13 Oct. 2017]. ISBN 978-84-16954-41-4.
DOI 10.15304/cc.2017.1080.11

Book edition

Costa, João et al., eds. (2014). New Directions in the Acquisition of Romance Languages. Selected proceedings of the Romance Turn V. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-5948-6.

Thesis

Martins, Cláudia (2015). “entrante aa noite” – O particípio presente no português antigo.  Master. Supervised by Maria Lobo and Alexandra Fiéis. Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/15435 [Accessed 19 Nov. 2017].

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