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Date: 09-Jun-2011
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: A Cognitive Approach to Adverbial Subordination in European
Portuguese: Vesterinen
 

	
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From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: A Cognitive Approach to Adverbial Subordination in European Portuguese: Vesterinen

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Title: A Cognitive Approach to Adverbial Subordination in European
Portuguese 
Subtitle: The Infinitive, the Clitic Pronoun Se and Finite Verb Forms 
Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.c-s-p.org
	
Author: Rainer Vesterinen

Hardback: ISBN:  9781443829281 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 34.99


Abstract:

The study of adverbial clauses in Portuguese is related to the fact that the 
Portuguese speaker may chose between three different structures, i.e. the 
adverbial clause may contain the plain infinitive, the inflected infinitive or a 
finite verb form. In the field of Portuguese Linguistics, the analysis of these 
structures has traditionally been conducted from a Generative Grammar 
perspective postulating abstract rules and transformations in order to explain 
the variation between these structures.  As a result, focus has been put on 
purely structural aspects, while conceptual differences have been highly 
neglected. The present book challenges this view of linguistic analysis. 
Instead of proposing a general semantic content for finite and infinitive 
adverbial clauses in Portuguese?traditionally based on notions like deep 
structure and surface structure?the hypothesis put forward is that these 
clauses evoke different meanings and that the use of one adverbial structure 
or another can be explained by the context in which it occurs and by the 
conceptual content it designates. From a Cognitive Grammar perspective of 
linguistic analysis, it is shown that Portuguese adverbial structures illustrate 
the iconic nature of language and that their conceptual meaning can be 
explained by notions such as prominence, mental spaces, control and 
subjectification. 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Portuguese (por)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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