A funcionalidade dos adjetivos em dois gêneros discursivos: uma investigação com base nas dependências universais

Abstract

his paper presents an investigation of adjectives in two discourse genres, Aesopian fables and essays on women’s etiquette, drawing on annotations based on Universal Dependencies. The goal is to argue for a more diverse sample of texts with respect to discourse genre when building annotated treebanks. This is meant to allow for representing the different ways in which lexis and grammar are activated in different genres. As the results point out, there are important differences with respect to the use of adjectives in the two samples of texts, not only in terms of frequency of occurrence, but also, and more importantly, in terms of the type of dependency relations adjectives are implicated in.