1. Repositório Institucional da UFMG
2. Publicações Científicas e Culturais
3. Artigo de Periódico

Type:	Artigo de Periódico
Title:	The pragmatics of verbal negation in brazilian portuguese: hypothesis testing with corpus data
Authors:	Luis Filipe Lima e Silva Heliana Ribeiro de Mello
Abstract:	This paper focuses on testing a pragmatic hypothesis about verbal negation in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). The BP verbal negation system presents three forms, namely: preverbal, double, and postverbal negation. Schwenter (2005) claims that there are constraints in the use of the non-canonical forms, i.e. double and postverbal negations. According to the author, double negation can negate only inferable or directly activated propositions and postverbal negation can negate only directly activated propositions. We tested this hypothesis with data from the C-ORAL-BRASIL reference spontaneous speech corpus of BP (Raso & Mello 2012). The results show that there is a tendency for Schwenter’s hypothesis about double negation to be confirmed, but this is not the case for postverbal negation. The corpus data examined reveal a high proportion of occurrences that do not comply with the proposed hypothesis. Further research is needed to advance the understanding of constraints about the use of the non-canonical forms of negation in BP.
Subject:	Linguística Pragmática Linguística de corpus
language:	eng
metadata.dc.publisher.country:	Brasil
Publisher:	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher Initials:	UFMG
metadata.dc.publisher.department:	FALE - FACULDADE DE LETRAS
Rights:	Acesso Aberto
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/1843/51380
Issue Date:	2016
metadata.dc.url.externa:	https://revistas.uam.es/chimera/article/view/6509
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof:	Chimera romance corpora and linguistic studies
Appears in Collections:	Artigo de Periódico

Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.