Clivadas sem operador no português brasileiro (Clefts without an operator in Brazilian Portuguese)

O português apresenta um tipo de sentença que tem sido tradicionalmente analisado como uma pseudo-clivada reduzida, as semi-clivadas, obtidas através do apagamento do operador-Q. Construcões semelhantes são também encontradas no Espanhol Caribenho (EsC) e analisadas como tendo um Operador nulo. Percebendo que nem todas as pseudo-clivadas têm uma reduzida correspondente, Bosque (1999) e Camacho (2006), tratando do EsC, e Mioto (2008), tratando do português brasileiro (PB), propoÃÉem uma derivação independente para as semi-clivadas. O presente trabalho se constitui numa tentativa diferente de explicar as semi-clivadas, independentemente das pseudo-clivadas, para dar conta de construções não permitidas em EsC. A diferença proposta é que, enquanto nas pseudo- clivadas o foco é o argumento, o adjunto ou o VP, nas semi- clivadas o foco é o resíduo de VP (depois da subida do verbo) ou Adverbiais adjuntos a VP.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Construções de Foco Estreito e Contrastivo. Espanhol Caribenho. Movimento Residual. Português Brasileiro.ABSTRACT Portuguese exhibits a type of sentence which has been traditionally analyzed as the reduction of a pseudo-cleft, built up through the deletion/ erasure of the wh-operator. Similar constructions are also found in the Caribbean dialects of Spanish (CS) and analyzed as containing a null Operator. Realizing that not all pseudo-clefts with an overt wh-operator have a corresponding reduced cleft, or semi-cleft, Bosque (1999) and Camacho (2006), for CS, and Mioto (2008), for Brazilian Portuguese, propose an independent derivation for semi-clefts. This paper is another attempt at deriving reduced or semi-clefts independently of pseudo-clefts, an analysis that can account for constructions found out in BP, which are inexistent in CS. I claim that, while pseudo-clefts focalize arguments, VP or adjuncts, reduced clefts focalize only remnant VPs and VP-adjuncts.KEYWORDS: Narrow and Contrastive Focus Construction. Caribbean Spanish. Remnant Movement. Brazilian Portuguese.

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Pidgin and Creole Studies: Their Interface with Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics ◽

10.1515/shll-2010-1082 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Armin Schwegler

Keyword(s):

Brazilian Portuguese ◽

The Core ◽

Contemporary Research ◽

Caribbean Spanish ◽

State Of Affairs ◽

Creole Languages ◽

Theoretical Issues ◽

Selection Of

AbstractUntil recently, dialectologists and general linguists with an interest in Hispanic or Lusophone studies essentially ignored pidgin or creole languages (for example, Bozal Spanish, Palenquero, Papiamento, São Tomense, and so on), several of which may be key for an understanding of the evolution of Spanish and Portuguese, especially as regards vernacular registers (including vernacular Brazilian Portuguese, popular Caribbean Spanish, and so forth).This paper first provides an overview of the rise of creolistics as a wellorganized subdiscipline of linguistics from the 1980s to the present. In so doing, the study examines principal theoretical issues and major themes, and shows how several of these are of relevance to Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics. Explanations are offered as to why the two subfields were originally slow to interface with each other, and how and why this state of affairs has recently changed for the better. Section 5 -the core of the paper- reviews a selection of contemporary research endeavors (2005-2010) that have either successfully interfaced Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics with pidgin and creole studies (or vice versa), or concentrated on creole speech areas where Spanish or Portuguese has historically had a significant impact.

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Caribbean Spanish = Brazilian Portuguese? Some comparative thoughts on the loss of pro-drop

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics ◽

10.1515/shll-2015-0012 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bernhard Pöll

Keyword(s):

Brazilian Portuguese ◽

Present Contribution ◽

Caribbean Spanish

AbstractThe present contribution compares Caribbean Spanish (CS), especially the Dominican variant (DS), and Brazilian Portuguese (BP). These dialects, which show several similarities with respect to the loss ofThe paper discusses also alternative proposals to the “competing grammars model” (cf.

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L1 phonological effects on L2 (non-)naïve perception: A cross-language investigation of the oral–nasal vowel contrast in Brazilian Portuguese

Second language Research ◽

10.1177/02676583211044953 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 026765832110449

Author(s):

Ruth Maria Martinez ◽

Heather Goad ◽

Michael Dow

Keyword(s):

First Language ◽

Brazilian Portuguese ◽

Language Groups ◽

The Status ◽

Vowel Systems ◽

Quebec French ◽

Caribbean Spanish ◽

Feature Based ◽

Vowel Contrast ◽

Cross Language

Feature-based approaches to acquisition principally focus on second language (L2) learners’ ability to perceive non-native consonants when the features required are either contrastively present or entirely absent from the first language (L1) grammar. As features may function contrastively or allophonically in the consonant and/or vowel systems of a language, we expand the scope of this research to address whether features that function contrastively in the L1 vowel system can be recombined to yield new vowels in the L2; whether features that play a contrastive role in the L1 consonant system can be reassigned to build new vowels in the L2; and whether L1 allophonic features can be ‘elevated’ to contrastive status in the L2. We examine perception of the oral–nasal contrast in Brazilian Portuguese listeners from French, English, Caribbean Spanish, and non-Caribbean Spanish backgrounds, languages that differ in the status assigned to [nasal] in their vowel systems. An AXB discrimination task revealed that, although all language groups succeeded in perceiving the non-naïve contrast /e/–/ẽ/ due to their previous exposure to Québec French while living in Montréal, Canada, only French and Caribbean Spanish speakers succeeded in discriminating the naïve contrast /i/–/ĩ/. These findings suggest that feature redeployment at first exposure is only possible if the feature is contrastive in the L1 vowel system (French) or if the feature is allophonic but variably occurs in contrastive contexts in the L1 vowel system (Caribbean Spanish). With more exposure to a non-native contrast, however, feature redeployment from consonant to vowel systems was also supported, as was the possibility that allophonic features may be elevated to contrastive status in the L2.

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Caribbean Spanish and Theoretical Syntax: An Overview

The Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190634797.003.0011 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 297-328

Author(s):

Ignacio Bosque ◽

José M. Brucart

Keyword(s):

Central America ◽

Critical Review ◽

Syntactic Variation ◽

Caribbean Area ◽

Caribbean Spanish ◽

The Caribbean ◽

Cleft Constructions ◽

Theoretical Syntax ◽

Pronominal System

This chapter provides an overview of the main phenomena of syntactic variation that correspond to Caribbean Spanish. It also develops a critical review of the formal analyses proposed in the literature to account for them. After a short theoretical introduction, the presentation of the data is organized into two groups. The first is devoted to constructions that are characteristic of the area under study (including Mexico, Central America, Antilles Islands, Colombia, and Venezuela). The second reviews constructions also found in other territories, but more frequently attested in the Caribbean area. The set of constructions studied relates to major aspects of Spanish grammar, such as the pronominal system, wh- constructions, infinitival subjects, agreement, possessives, cleft constructions, and negation, among others.

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