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LEAL, RICARDO AUGUSTO BOITEUX MENDES. "GRAMMAR MODEL-BASED FUNCTIONAL TEST." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=12322@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORO teste funcional de software é um desafio enfrentado há muito tempo por desenvolvedores. A complexidade crescente de sistemas computacionais torna esse desafio ainda maior. Uma tendência apontada como possível solução deste problema é o uso de teste baseado em modelos. Inspirada neste paradigma, esta dissertação retrata uma pesquisa sobre o uso de gramáticas como modelos de teste funcional. Modelos gramaticais podem capturar conceitos e comportamentos de um sistema e de seu ambiente usando um nível de abstração de acordo com o objetivo de teste. Eles também podem ser aplicados para descrever casos de teste funcional e guiar a execução de casos de teste gerados num sistema em teste. O resultado desta execução, representado na forma de um veredicto, revela a conformidade do sistema com seus requisitos e especificações. Para explorar o potencial dos modelos gramaticais, este trabalho definiu uma maneira sistemática de gerar e executar massas de teste. Esta solução permitiu a programação de diferentes estratégias de teste. Ela também facilitou a adaptação dos testes a mudanças de requisitos e promoveu o reuso dos testes existentes. Como efeito colateral deste estudo, um processo de teste funcional foi desenvolvido e a arquitetura de apoio aqui introduzida pode ser reutilizada ou estendida por futuras soluções de teste funcional.
Software functional test is a challenge faced by developers for a long time. The growing complexity of computing systems turns this challenge even greater. Model-based testing is a trend pointed out by the academia and the industry as a possible solution to this matter. Inspired by this paradigm, this dissertation depicts a research made on the use of grammars as functional test models. Grammar models can capture concepts and behaviors of a system and its environment at a level of abstraction according to the test goal. They also can be applied to describe functional test cases and guide the execution of the generated test cases against a system under test. The result of this execution, represented as a verdict, reveals the system conformity with its requirements and specifications. In order to explore grammar models potential, this work defined a systematic way to generate and execute a mass of tests. This solution allowed the implementation of different test strategies. It also assisted test adjustment to requirements change and promoted existing tests reuse. As a side-effect of this study, a functional test process was developed and the supporting architecture introduced here may be reused or extended by future functional test solutions.
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李逸薇 and Yat-mei Lee. "Complement functions in Cantonese: a lexical-functional grammar approach." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31226267.
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Lee, Yat-mei. "Complement functions in Cantonese : a lexical-functional grammar approach /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?
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Nguyen, Tam. "A Grammar of Bih." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12996.
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Bih is a Chamic (Austronesian) language spoken by approximately 500 people in the Southern highlands of Vietnam. This dissertation is the first descriptive grammar of the language, based on extensive fieldwork and community-based language documentation in Vietnam and written from a functional/typological perspective. The analysis in this work is supported with illustrations drawn mainly from texts, with examples from elicitation when needed as well.
In phonology, Bih is the only mainland Chamic language to have retained all four Proto-Chamic presyllablic vowels. As a result, Bih is the only Chamic language having only primary clusters inherited from Proto-Chamic and lacks the secondary clusters created by a reduction of an original disyllable form in Proto-Chamic, which occur in other languages of the family. In addition to the vowels, Bih retains only six out of thirteen Proto-Chamic presyllable consonants, but it retains all main syllable consonants from Proto-Chamic. In addition, all voiced "aspirated" consonants in Proto-Chamic become voiceless in Bih. This phonological change is common throughout coastal Chamic and it is also shared among Bih and other two highland Chamic languages, Chru and Northern Roglai, but not with Ede.
In morphological terms, Bih is an isolating language. Words are mostly monosyllabic, although there are a number of disyllable or trisyllable words with the fossilized prefixes pa- or ma- or both. Without inflection on verbs, like other mainland Southeast Asian languages, Bih includes a set of particles functioning as grammatical markers. In fact, many Bih words function as either a full lexical verb or particle depending on their syntactic behaviors.
The fundamental mechanisms of Bih syntax are clause-chaining and verb serialization. Most grammatical forms develop from serial verb source constructions. Another feature of great areal typological interest is the topic and focus distinction system of Bih, which, in combination with word order alternations, indicates the discourse status of a referent: whether it is new and/or important in the discourse, or the speaker's evaluation of whether or not a referent is accessible to the mind of the hearer, or whether it contradicts a presupposition or expectation on the part of the hearer or of people in general. Bih has a very interesting obviative-like system, which uses one third person pronoun form to refer to the character whose point of view is being represented and another for all other third persons.
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Lam, Shi-Ching Olivia. "Object functions and the syntax of double object constructions in lexical functional grammar." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f2fce4eb-2f01-4fad-8c65-b95dee2ec4d9.
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It has long been observed that, in a double object constructions (DOC), the two objects exhibit different syntactic behaviour. In Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), these two objects are characterized as two distinct grammatical functions. The object that syntactically patterns with the monotransitive object is the unrestricted object OBJ. The one that does not is the restricted object OBJθ. The goals of this dissertation are to investigate the syntax of DOCs, and to explore the two object functions in LFG. When thinking about DOCs, the verb that almost invariably comes to mind is GIVE. This verb, however, may not be as prototypical as is commonly assumed. In Cantonese, it is the only verb whose objects are in an anomalous order, with the object that bears the theme role preceding the object which expresses the recipient role. Cantonese as a language does not uniformly have the direct (theme) object preceding the indirect (recipient) object. Other than the difference in their linear order, the objects in the GIVE-construction pattern with those in all other DOCs in the language. In some languages, there is a possibility of having more objects than is required by the underived form of a verb. An additional object can be licensed by the affixation of an applicative morpheme to the verb root. The syntax of the objects in an applicative construction is directly related to the type of semantic role that is applied. This has posed challenges for previous accounts of applicative constructions, as a change in the morphological structure of a verb is accompanied by a change in its argument structure. A new proposal is offered to account for this. A study of the syntax of DOCs involves much more than merely acknowledging the presence of two object functions in the construction. The morphology of the verb, the semantic roles that are required by the verb and the linear order of the arguments that express these roles are all relevant. Assuming various parallel but inter-related levels of representation, the theory of LFG has the suitable tools to take all these into consideration. Reference can be made straight-forwardly to the information at the different levels of representation, including the a-structure, the c-structure, the f-structure and the m-structure.
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Tong, Wun-sing, and 唐煥星. "The application of systemic functional grammar in Chinesepractical compositions." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31963225.
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Anstey, Mathew Philip. "Towards a functional discourse grammar analysis of Tiberian Hebrew /." [Barton (A.C.T.)] : [M. P. Anstey], 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb401376687.
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Chatsiou, Aikaterini (Kakia). "A Lexical Functional Grammar approach to modern Greek relative clauses." Thesis, University of Essex, 2010. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/20558/.
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This thesis presents an account of the properties of Relative Clauses in Modern Greek, with particular focus on the distribution of the resumption and gap relativization strategies. For the most part relative clauses have been regarded in the literature as a type of Long Distance dependencies with unique properties. This thesis looks at the properties of three types of relative clauses in Modern Greek (restrictive, non-restrictive and free relative clauses). Working in the framework of Lexical Functional Grammar, we present an overview of the most important properties of Modern Greek Relative Clauses focusing on the distribution of the gap and resumption strategies in these constructions. We propose an analysis of Relative Clauses that brings forward the similarities of the three types of Relatives while at the same time manages to account for their dissimilarities, and it is shown that such constructions can be accommodated in LFG quite straightforwardly. The thesis also presents a computational implementation of the analysis using XLE (Xerox Linguistics Environment) a platform for testing and writing LFG grammars.
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Bögel, Tina [Verfasser]. "The Syntax-Prosody Interface in Lexical Functional Grammar / Tina Bögel." Konstanz : Bibliothek der Universität Konstanz, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1129599108/34.
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Carretero, García Paloma. "A lexical functional grammar account of Spanish weak dative pronominals." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19951/.
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This thesis is concerned with Spanish weak dative pronominals. Similar elements-generally labelled as clitics- in many languages have been focus of much research in Linguistics. The present study, however, abstracts away from classic approaches that had the external form of clitics as their main focus and provides description and analysis of very specific uses of dative pronominal items, namely when they appear on ditransitive constructions, with psychological predicates or in a configuration where they are not lexically specified in the valency of the verb, the so-called non-selected datives. The analysis of the dative in ditransitive constructions is twofold. We claim that the distribution of the dative in such configurations has semantic and syntactic implications. The presence of the dative pronoun is becoming grammaticalised and provides an entailment of affectedness. In instances of clitic doubling where we have both the pronoun and a noun phrase, we are treating the pronoun as the element that the predicate subcategorises for and the noun phrase is linked to it through information structure. This analysis is quite innovative as it ensures both elements are linked but they retain syntactic independence, in contrast with their treatment in previous approaches. With psychological predicates, we are concerned with what the status of the dative marked argument is; as previous approaches have contradictory views of it as subject or object. We analyse this dative with the tools provided by Lexical Mapping Theory and disagree with previous accounts by proposing an analysis of this dative as OBJɵ. With regards to non-selected datives in Spanish, they have not been widely discussed in the literature. We describe the different types and propose a finer grouping based on their ability to be treated as derived arguments. We sketch an analysis that adds a dative argument to the valency of a predicate through a lexical operation.
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Zappavigna, Michele. "Eliciting Tacit Knowledge with a Grammar-targeted Interview Method." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1909.
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Tacit knowledge represents a challenge to knowledge elicitation due to the assumption that this type of knowledge cannot be articulated. We argue that Polanyi's (1966:4) widely cited notion that “we know more than we can tell” represents a weak model of language that does not acknowledge the grammatical patterns in spoken discourse that we, as speakers, apply tacitly. We investigate the hypothesis that individuals articulate what they know through grammatical patterns, referred to as under-representation, without direct awareness. This thesis develops and pilots a grammar-targeted interview method aimed at unpacking specific grammatical features that occur in spoken discourse. The model of language from which these features are derived is Systemic Functional Linguistics. We report findings from three empirical studies of tacit knowledge in corporate organisations where we used the grammar-targeted interview technique to elicit tacit knowledge in the areas of knowledge management, requirements analysis and performance reviews. We compare this interview method with a content-targeted approach. The results show that the grammar-targeted technique produces less under-represented discourse thus allowing tacit knowledge held by the interviewees to be made visible. Based on the linguistic analyses undertaken in these field studies we propose that Polanyi’s expression “we know more than we tell” be reformulated to “we tell more than we realise we know”.
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Ben, Ayed Hela. "Mood and functional projections." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82828.
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In this dissertation, I investigate the structural representation of mood in a Minimalist framework. This investigation is based on the study of mood particles in Modern Standard Arabic and the way they interact with (i) the verb and (ii) negation. Arabic subjunctive particles are compared to subjunctive Balkan particles.The main suggestion is that Arabic clause structure involves an inflectional projection Modal Phrase (ModP) that hosts the subjunctive particle ?an as well as other mood particles all of which check verbal mood morphology through the operation Agree.
The subjunctive particle ?an is compared to Balkan subjunctive particles and is argued to be an inflectional element rather than a lower complementizer in the sense of Rizzi (1997). In particular, it is suggested that Arabic and Balkan subjunctive particles fall into two types: (i) Type 1 inflectional particles that check a mood feature with the verb and that may occur in clauses lacking the CP layer. These include Arabic ?an and Romanian sǎ, and (ii) Type 2 lower Comp particles that do not check any verbal feature and that require the projection of the CP layer. These include Greek na and Bulgarian da.
As far as the interaction of mood particles with negation, it is suggested that some mood particles including subjunctive ?an may select NegP and check verbal mood across negation. Other particles, however, may not select NegP and are incompatible with negation.
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Kimoto, Yukinori. "A Grammar of Arta: A Philippine Negrito Langage." Kyoto University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/226793.
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Abire, Wondwosen Tesfaye. "Aspects of Diraytata Morphology and Syntax : A Lexical-Functional Grammar Approach." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Language and Communication Studies, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-2144.
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This thesis examines Aspects of Diraytata Morphology and Syntax as it relates to lexical categories, predicate arguments, anaphoric binding relations and patterns of argument structure and mapping relations in light of the theory of Lexical-Functional Grammar. Diraytata is one of leastknown languages in the Konsoid chain in the Oromoid subgroup in the Nuclear Southern Lowland East Cushitic group within the Cushitic family. The Ethiopian Languages Research Center (ELRC), of which the candidate is a member, gives priority and encourages its staff to conduct research on the least studied languages. The present thesis goes in line with the research priority of the Center. The data were obtained from informants from two longer fieldtrips to Dirashe Special District. The methods used for data collection were elicitation and group discussion.
The thesis has two parts and ten chapters. The first chapter gives a general introduction to the people, the language, previous studies on the language, etc. and the second chapter introduces the theoretical framework.
Part I, from chapters 3 to 5, examines the morphology of Diraytata. In chapter 3, the noun morphology has been presented. In Diraytata case and definiteness are inextricably bound up with the focus system and hence inexplicable without a prior exposure to the focus system. The major claim is that the nominative case is inappropriate to designate a subject case in Diraytata and be replaced by non-focalized subject case (NFS).
In chapter 4, the adjectives have been considered. Attributive adjectives inflect for gender and number. The predicative adjectives occur in clause final position. It has been argued that the attributive and predicative adjectives in Diraytata are derived from a common categorially unspecified bound stem.
In chapter 5, the verb morphology has been discussed. In the first section, we have dealt with inflections. We said that verbs inflect for various grammatical categories such as for agreement, aspect and mood. We posited a phonetically null bound affix "ø" in order to fill the gap in a predicate paradigm. The newly introduced null bound affix "ø" has a third person masculine singular interpretation. In the second section, we have seen the verb derivations: passives, middles and causatives.
Part II, from chapters 6 to 9, discusses the syntax. In chapter 6, the phrasal arguments of Diraytata have been examined. We have classified the predicates into three types on the basis of the types of arguments they select at f-structure.
In chapter 7, the clausal complements have been considered. The clausal complements are classified into two: controlled and non-controlled. The latter type does not allow an external controller to control clause internal arguments whereas the former type allows an external controller to control clause internal argument.
In chapter 8, the anaphoric binding relation has been discussed. We have divided the anaphors of Diraytata into two: nuclear and non-nuclear anaphors. The nuclear anaphors subsume reflexives and reciprocals. There are two types of reflexive morphemes: ?iss and mašš-. Reciprocity is indicated by the morpheme ?orr. The reflexive and the reciprocal function as an object argument only. On the other hand, the non-nuclear anaphors subsume pronouns designated by PRO.
In chapter 9, the argument structure and the Lexical Mapping Theory have been discussed. We have considered the application of LMT to various predicates in Diraytata such as intransitive, transitive, passive, raising and causative predicates. The major claim is that the standard LMT is inadequate to account for the causatives of ditransitive predicates in Diraytata, as such predicates may have more than one OBJ functions that goes contrary to the Function-Argument Bi-uniqueness principle. We have seen that the version of LMT called FMT of Alsina (1996) is appropriate to handle the causatives of ditransitive predicates as the FMT allows more than one OBJ functions.
We have proposed the Recipient Suppression operation to the Morpholexical Operations of Bresnan and Kanerva (1989) and Bresnan and Moshi (1990) in order to account for the active intransitive counterparts of the ditransitive predicates. The newly introduced suppression operation takes care of recipient or benefactive deletion in a ditransitive predicate.
In conclusion, this study proves that the basic assumptions, the principles and the formal architectures of LFG are generally correct in handling the empirical facts of Diraytata. However, we need to add some operations (e.g. Recipient Suppression) to explain syntactic phenomena more adequately.
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Mycock, Louise J. "Typology of constituent questions : : Lexical-functional grammar analysis of 'wh'-questions." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488451.
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Zhang, Dongbing. "Negotiating Interpersonal Meaning in Khorchin Mongolian: Discourse and Grammar." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22835.
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This thesis describes the interpersonal discourse semantic and lexicogrammatical systems in Khorchin Mongolian based on conversational data within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The systems described in this thesis are resources for enacting social relations. They are modelled at the strata of discourse semantics and lexicogrammar. The point of departure of this thesis is interpersonal discourse semantics. Extant descriptions of resources at exchange and move rank (the systems of NEGOTIATION and SPEECH FUNCTION (Martin, 1992)) are expanded to account for the discourse patterns in the Khorchin Mongolian conversational data. The thesis first explores interpersonal resources at the ranks of exchange and move. At exchange rank, it describes the NEGOTIATION system based on patterns of exchange structure. At move rank, it proposes the systems of INTERLOCUTOR POSITIONING and DIALOGIC POSITIONING. INTERLOCUTOR POSITIONING deals with the positioning of interlocutors with respect to their knowledge of the information under negotiation or their responsibility for performing an action. DIALOGIC POSITIONING deals with the positioning of dialogic alternatives in the process of interaction. These discourse semantic systems are then taken as the point of departure for the description of interpersonal systems in lexicogrammar – specifically the major systems of MOOD, PREDICATION, and STANCE. MOOD is concerned with indicative and imperative clauses, PREDICATION with resources realised through the Predicator, and STANCE with the interaction between interpersonal particles and TENSE. This thesis makes two significant contributions. First, it closely examines the relationship between discourse semantic systems at exchange and move rank. The systems developed could potentially be relevant to the description of other languages. Second, it provides a unified account of what has been described under various headings in the traditional descriptions of Khorchin Mongolian, such as clausal syntax, modality, evidentiality, negation and tense. It thus affords an integrated systemic functional description of Khorchin Mongolian interpersonal discourse and grammatical patterns.
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Gao, Hua. "A cognitive-functional investigation of questions in Chinese." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3473790X.
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Pan, Yanhong. "On the verb phrase in Qinzhou Zhuang an LFG analysis of serial verb constructions /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2010. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43703975.
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Gao, Hua, and 高華. "A cognitive-functional investigation of questions in Chinese." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3473790X.
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Baker, Elizabeth J. "An inquiry into the development of critical text creators: Teaching grammar in the primary years." Thesis, Griffith University, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/411535.
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The inaugural Australian Curriculum: English (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2010a) included functional grammar as a necessity to account for the increasing number of multimodal texts with which students are engaging. As texts become increasingly multimodal, students continue to require critical literacy skills that allow for the analysis of these texts.
Alongside changes in the curriculum, researchers raised concerns about teachers’ knowledge in functional grammar Love and Humphrey (2012); (Love et al., 2015). With limited support for the development of grammar pedagogy, educators have relied more on traditional approaches (Harper & Rennie, 2009; Snyder, 2008). Consequently, there is a need for research on functional grammar pedagogy that accounts for multimodal texts and critical literacy.
A qualitative case study methodology with a teacher-researcher was used to investigate the overarching research question How can functional grammar develop students’ critical literacy when creating multimodal texts? This research explored the teaching and learning of functional grammar for critical literacy during multimodal text creation in the primary school. The research consisted of a sequence of twelve lessons, conducted in a Year 5 classroom in the Australian Capital Territory during Terms 3 and 4, 2020. Data were collected through audio and video recordings during the lessons, student work samples and semi-structured interviews following the sequence of lessons. Four students were selected as cases in this study.
Student and classroom data were analysed using a Bernsteinian (2000) theorisation of pedagogy and Hallidayan (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014) theorisation of grammar. Bernstein’s (2000) theory of framing was adapted as an analytical tool to explore the selection, sequencing, pacing and criteria used within the sequence of lessons. Halliday’s (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014) functional grammar metalanguage was used to investigate the case study students’ exploration, creation and reflection of multimodal texts during the sequence of lessons.
The findings demonstrated that the case study teacher wove across a range of pedagogical frames, moving from open inquiry to explicit instruction. Through these lessons, students engaged in critical literacy through a variety of functional grammar resources. Students enacted functional grammar knowledge in different ways to explore, create and reflect on multimodal texts. Use of functional grammar resources was not equal between the student cases, with some students using resources without evidence of reflection whereas others primarily explored texts using functional grammar resources. Findings reveal some students’ ability to engage with complex multimodal texts using functional grammar. Implications from this research highlight what is possible when a teacher has a high level of functional grammar knowledge for multimodal texts in primary classrooms.Thesis (Masters)
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Patpong, Pattama. "A systemic functional interpretation of Thai grammar an exploration of Thai narrative discourse /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/23285.
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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Linguistics & Psychology, Department of Linguistics, 2006.Bibliography: p. 742-762.
Systemic functional linguistics as a framework for description -- An overview of the grammar of Thai -- Textual clause grammar: the system of THEME -- Interpersonal clause grammar: the system of MOOD -- Experiential grammar at clause rank: the system of TRANSITIVITY -- Thai narrative register: context, semantics and lexicogrammatical profiles -- Conclusions.
This research is a text-based study of the grammar of standard Thai, based on systemic functional linguistics. It is the first attempt to explore Thai in systemic functional terms, that is with the account of the grammar of Thai being interpreted as resource for making meaning that is part of language as a higher-order semiotic system. This account utilizes a corpus-based methodology and explores extensive evidence from natural narrative texts, specifically fourteen Thai folk tales. This systemic functional interpretation of Thai is also supported by an investigation of other text types (See Chapter 2). The research has both intermediate and long term implications. The description itself will be a resource for the Thai community and it will also contribute to the growing area of linguistic typology based on systemic descriptions. The long term implication of the research is that the description will be used as a model for text-based research into minority languages in Thailand. -- There are two introductory chapters to the study. The first chapter discusses some general issues concerned with systemic functional theory and data used in the development of the description of the grammar of Thai. The second chapter is a preview chapter which provides an overview of the grammar of Thai in terms of three strands of meaning: textual, interpersonal, and the experiential mode of ideational meanings. The systemic functional interpretation is based on an exploration of a number of texts with a wide generic spread (e.g. news reports, topographic texts, encyclopedia, and television interview). -- Chapter 3 to Chapter 7 constitute the main body of the thesis. Chapter 3 deals with the textual metafunction: it explores the THEME system as the enabling resource for the clause grammar for presenting interpersonal and experiential meanings as a flow of information in context. Chapter 4 is concerned with the interpersonal metafunction. It is focused on exploring the MOOD system, that is, the resource of clause grammar for enacting social roles and relationships in an exchange. Chapter 5 is concerned with the experiential mode of the ideational metafunction: it investigates the TRANSITIVITY system, which is the resource of the clause grammar for construing our experience of the world around and inside us. As this thesis is based mainly on narrative discourse, Chapter 6 profiles Thai narratives in terms of context, semantics, and lexicogrammar. Firstly, at the context stratum, the chapter describes the generic structure potential of Thai folk tales. Secondly, the chapter describes the realization of this generic structure by semantic properties. Finally, the chapter is concerned with quantitatively exploring the narratives on the basis of clause-rank systems, at the stratum of lexicogrammar, across the metafunctional spectrum midway up the cline of instantiation. In the final chapter, the study concludes by summarizing the preceding chapters, pointing out research implications and limitations, and suggesting some areas for further studies.
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Gray, James Wesley. "Task-Based English Grammar Instruction: A Focus on Meaning." Kyoto University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/253376.
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(主査)准教授 高橋 幸, 教授 谷口 一美, 教授 STEWART Timothy William, 准教授 笹尾 洋介, 教授 田地野 彰
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Kim, Tai-Soo. "Functional features in Korean : a minimalist approach /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8422.
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Ericsson, Anna, and Maja Shaffeir. ""Grammatik är ett känsligt ämne. Man kan inte bara komma in och ändra" : Grammatikforskningens förankring i skolan." Thesis, Jönköping University, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-7683.
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Den teoretiska utgångspunkten i denna studie är den skolnära forskning som bedrivs inom grammatikämnet. Denna har mening först när den tillämpas och syftet med denna kvalitativa studie är att undersöka om och i så fall hur svensklärare i grundskolans senare år tar del av forskning som rör grammatikundervisning samt om och i så fall hur forskningen påverkar deras undervisning. Fem svensklärare i grundskolans senare år har intervjuats och resultatet visar att lärarna främst utgår från kursplan, kollegial tradition och läromedel. De söker inte aktivt forskning om grammatikundervisning och denna påverkar inte deras undervisning på något märkbart sätt. Det framkommer också att lärarna inte fått någon grammatikdidaktik i sin lärarutbildning. Dessutom visar undersökningen att den nya funktionella grammatik som sätter undervisningen i meningsfulla sammanhang inte slagit igenom i svensk grammatikundervisning.
The aim of this study is to examine if and how teachers in Swedish secondary school acquaint themselves with research on grammar education and if this research affect their grammar lessons. Five in-depth interviews with teachers have produced information that show that the teachers base their grammar lessons on the curricula, textbooks and collegial tradition. The interviews show that because of insufficient grammar didactics in their teacher education the teachers support their education with this material. The teachers do not actively look for research on grammar and it does not affect their grammar lessons in any obvious way. The new functional grammar which promotes grammar education in a meaningful context has not yet become generally accepted.
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Way, Andrew. "LFG-DOT : a hybrid architecture for robust MT." Thesis, University of Essex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340428.
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Carrascossi, Cibele Naidhig de Souza. "Gramaticalização e (inter)subjetivização na modalização em português : um estudo de pode ser /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103578.
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Orientador: Maria Helena de Moura NevesBanca: Sebastião Carlos Leite Gonçalves
Banca: Sandra Denise Gasparini Bastos
Banca: Vânia Cristina Casseb Galvão
Banca: Rosane de Andrade Berlinck
Resumo: Neste trabalho, investiga-se a expressão modalizadora pode ser em dois contextos sintáticos distintos: a) como predicado encaixador de proposição (pode ser1); b) como construção independente (pode ser2). Nesses contextos, o verbo modal constitui, com a forma infinitiva, uma fórmula fixa, rotinizada, com alta produtividade no nível discursivo. Assim, sob base teórica funcionalista (DIK, 1997a, 1997b), busca-se descrever a atuação de pode ser nos níveis semântico, sintático e pragmático. Para tanto, o corpus utilizado é composto por textos contemporâneos do português brasileiro, de escrita e de fala. Investigam-se os processos subjacentes à multiplicidade de usos da construção, avaliando-se a hipótese de gramaticalização (HEINE et al., 1991b; TRAUGOTT; HEINE, 1991; HOPPER; TRAUGOTT, 1993, entre outros) e de (inter)subjetivização (TRAUGOTT, 1989, 1995a, 2010, entre outros; TRAUGOTT; DASHER, 2002). A pesquisa revela que há encaminhamentos condizentes com a gramaticalização, mas que não podem ser tomados como definitivos em relação à identificação do processo. As propriedades modalizadoras da construção são exploradas. Pode ser1 apresenta-se como uma forma consolidada de avaliação epistêmica, enquanto pode ser2 não se restringe a esse domínio modal e ambos os usos podem manifestar diferentes direções de modalização: orientada para o falante (marcada pela subjetividade) e orientada para o ouvinte (marcada pela intersubjetividade). O exame das características semânticas e discursivas das ocorrências aponta para um desenvolvimento próprio de (inter)subjetivização. Observa-se, com isso, que a operação da construção desliza da sintaxe (pode ser1) para o discurso (pode ser2). Como predicado matriz, pode ser1 indexa posicionamento epistêmico do enunciador em relação ao... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: In this work, we explore the modalized expression pode ser, in two different syntactic contexts: a) as a predicate of an embedded proposition (pode ser1); b) as an independent structure (pode ser2). In these contexts, the modal verb constitutes, with the infinitive form, a fixed formula, routinized, with high productivity on the discursive level. Therefore, based on a functionalist theory (DIK, 1997a, 1997b), we seek to describe the operation of pode ser on semantic, syntactic and pragmatic levels. For this, the used corpus is made of contemporary Brazilian Portuguese texts, amidst writing and speech. We explore the processes underlying the multiplicity of uses of the structure, evaluating the grammaticalization hypothesis (HEINE et al., 1991b; TRAUGOTT; HEINE, 1991; HOPPER; TRAUGOTT, 1993, and others) and also the (inter)subjectification (TRAUGOTT, 1989, 1995a, 2010, and others; TRAUGOTT; DASHER, 2002). The analyses reveal consistent referrals towards grammaticalization, although they cannot be seen as definitive, regarding the process‟ identification. The modalized qualities of the structure are also explored. Pode ser1 shows itself as a consolidated form of epistemic evaluation, whilst pode ser2 is not restricted to this modal domain, and both uses of the structure may express different modalization directions: speaker-oriented (marked by subjectivity) and listener-oriented (marked by the intersubjectivity). The examination of the semantic and discursive characteristics of occurrences points towards a unique development of its (inter)subjectification. We can observe that the structure‟s construction slips from syntax (pode ser1) to discourse (pode ser2). As a matrix predicate, pode ser1 indexes the enunciator‟s epistemic position, in relation to the embedded... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Leung, Ho Sze Louisa. "A functional analysis of the language of film reviews." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1998. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/107.
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Hardymon, Nathan. "THE SHAWNEE ALIGNMENT SYSTEM: APPLYING PARADIGM FUNCTION MORPHOLOGY TO LEXICAL-FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR'S M-STRUCTURE." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/ltt_etds/8.
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Shawnee is a language whose alignment system is of the type first proposed by Nichols (1992) and Siewierska (1998): hierarchical alignment. This alignment system was proposed to account for languages where distinctions between agent (A) and object (O) are not formally manifested. Such is the case in Shawnee; there are person-marking inflections on the verb for both A and O, but there is not set order. Instead, Shawnee makes reference to an animacy hierarchy and is an inverse system. This thesis explores how hierarchical alignment is accounted for by Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), and also applies Paradigm Function Morphology to LFG’s m(orphological)-structure as most of the alignment system in Shawnee is realized in the inflectional morphology.
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Noresund, Lilia. "Grammar teaching - to be or not to be, that is the question : En kvalitativ studie om grammatikundervisningens plats i språkundervisning i grundskolans tidigare år." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-5559.
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This research traces the trajectory of those methods of teaching grammar that five different teachers in Swedish from Stockholm municipality use in their practice. Their both constructive and negative attitudes towards grammar were in fokus when looking after the connection between their own experience of learning/teaching native language grammar and the methods that they are actually using in their own classes. I was trying to gain knowledge and achieve the purpose of this research by means of a qualitativ method. My empirical data consists of five interviews with the pedagogues who are teaching Swedish. I was also reviewing the scientific research related to the topic. This study has scratched the surface of the systemic funktional grammar (SFG) pedagogy. SFG is a model of grammar developed by the British linguist Michael Halliday. The meta-language informed by SFG seems to be the keyword of the model because of its implicit meaning. Only one of five teachers has been incorporating SFG into the teaching of history. When working with the third grade pupils the teacher has been using the modeling and deconstruktion of the kids own texts. the other four teachers have never heard about SFG before. The methods they are using are not updated that much, it is also easy to notice that they stich to the teaching of grammar as a separate part of language.
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Corbett, John B. "Functional grammar and genre analysis : a description of the language of learned and popular articles." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1992. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2510/.
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There has been a growing interest in the form and function of academic English, especially among teachers of English as a Foreign Language. `Academic' English, however, covers a variety of genres, including specialist and non-specialist writings across a range of disciplines. Little is known about the linguistic similarities and differences among these genres. This thesis aims to add to the study of academic English by investigating learned and popular articles in the fields of biology, computing and history. The descriptive framework is based mainly on Halliday's functional grammar, although reference is made to other linguistic theories, such as Winter's clause relations. Eighteen articles from the three fields were selected, nine learned articles and nine corresponding popular articles. Extracts from these articles form the small corpus analysed. After an introductory chapter, the second chapter reviews the nature of theme in English, and performs a thematic analysis on the corpus. The third chapter reviews the ideational function of language, and investigates how the language of the corpus articles represents reality. The fourth chapter reviews the interpersonal function of language and investigates this aspect of the corpus. The penultimate chapter comments on discourse patterns in the articles. The conclusion suggests that the similarities and differences between learned and popular articles, and between science and the humanities, are a result of systematic functional variation among genres.
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Chen, Lily. "The effect of functional role on language choice in newspapers." Thesis, Durham University, 2001. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1716/.
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Fung, Suet-man. "Topic and focus in Cantonese an OT-LFG account /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38725113.
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Pan, Yanhong, and 潘艳红. "On the verb phrase in Qinzhou Zhuang: an LFG analysis of serial verb constructions." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43703975.
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Hayashi, Lawrence. "The Relationship Between Visual Event Perception, Dishabituation of Neural Models and Progressive Aspect in English." Thesis, University of Oregon, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/24567.
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130 pagesProgressive aspect has traditionally been linked to notions of speaker viewpoint on conceptual structure - specifically, whether the speaker perceives an event as bounded or unbounded. The following research examines the cognitive structures of the mental representation that might underlay these conceptual notions, recasting viewpoint in cognitive terms. A cognitive model of information processing is presented, explaining processes of information parsing, message formulation and linguistic encoding as carried out by a functional grammar. In particular, we examine how the grammar uses the habituated or dishabituated states of neural models formed from sensory or memorial inputs in determining progressive or non-progressive message encoding. Hypotheses are tested by experiments based upon a paradigm in which speakers describe visual stimuli while simultaneously watching them on a screen. This online paradigm allows us to approximate the speaker's mental representation, providing text-independent measures to compare against linguistic output.
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Sano, Motoki. "A linguistic exploration of persuasion in written Japanese discourse a systemic functional interpretation /." Access electronically, 2006. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/21.
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Câmara, Aliana Lopes. "Multifuncionalidade e gramaticalização de Já no português falado culto /." São José do Rio Preto : [s.n.], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/86612.
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Orientador: Roberto Gomes CamachoBanca: Cláudia Nívea Roncarati de Souza
Banca: Sanderléia Roberta Longhin-Thomazi
Resumo: O trabalho objetiva investigar e descrever o caráter multifuncional da partícula já no português brasileiro falado culto, enfatizando principalmente os níveis e camadas de análise da Gramática Funcional de Dik (1989) e da recente Gramática Funcional do Discurso (HENGEVELD, 1989 e 2004; HENGEVELD & MACKENZIE, no prelo). A hipótese principal é que há vários tipos de já que são distribuídos de acordo com características sintáticas, semânticas e pragmáticas em diferentes níveis e camadas de atuação gramatical. Um desses tipos é o aspectual que dispõe de características similares ao uso de already em inglês e que é analisado como marcador de aspecto inceptivo com diferentes funções semânticas no discurso de acordo com a proposta de Michaelis (1996) para a língua inglesa. A multifuncionalidade de já permite a investigação do item como possuindo características mais ou menos concretas, o que sugere estar envolvido um processo de gramaticalização. Nessa direção, faz-se necessária a aplicação (i) dos princípios gerais de Hopper (1991) e (ii) dos domínios cognitivos de Sweetser (1991), entre outros. Além disso, nossa definição de gramaticalização vai além da tradicional, segundo a qual a gramaticalização é um processo em que um item lexical assume características mais gramaticais, ou um item gramatical se torna ainda mais gramatical. Acrescenta-se aqui, de acordo com Traugott (1995), que, nesse processo, o item pode sofrer um acréscimo de características discursivas, o que leva a entender o Discurso como fazendo parte da gramática da língua. Essa opção teórica coincide com a proposta multifuncional adotada, uma vez que, na GFD, o Discurso constitui um dos níveis de análise dentro da gramática. A amostra lingüística de já foi extraída do córpus mínimo do Projeto Gramática do Português Falado, que advém de dados do Projeto NURC.
Abstract: This study aims at investigating and describing the multifunctional character of the particle já in Standard Spoken Brazilian Portuguese. It mainly emphasizes the levels and layers of analysis from Dik's Functional Grammar (1989) and from the recent Functional Discourse Grammar (HENGEVELD, 1989 and 2004; HENGEVELD & MACKENZIE, forthc., in prep.). The main hypothesis is that there are several types of já which are distributed according to syntatic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics in different levels and layers of grammar. Among these types, there is the aspectual, which has characteristics similar to those of the use of already in English and which is analyzed as an inceptive aspect marker with different semantic functions in discourse according to Michaelis' proposal (1996) for the English language. The multifunctionality of já allows us to investigate this item as having more or less concrete characteristics, which suggests the involvement of a grammaticalization process. In this sense, it is necessary to apply: (i) the general principles (HOPPER, 1991) and (ii) the cognitive domains (SWEETSER, 1991), among others. Besides this, our definition of grammaticalization goes beyond the traditional definition, according to it, the grammaticalization is a process in which the lexical item assumes more grammatical characteristics, or a grammatical item becomes even more grammatical. In addition, according to Traugott (1995), the item in this process may show an increase of discursive characteristics, leading to an understanding of Discourse as part of the grammar of the language. This theoretical option is coherent with the multifunctional proposal addopted, since in FDG the Discourse is one of the levels of analysis in the grammar. The linguistic samples of já were taken from the minimum corpus of the Spoken Portuguese Grammar Project, which is built with data of the NURC Project.
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Sakurai, Kazuhiro, and 櫻井和裕. "An OT-LFG analysis of language change." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46732482.
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Snijders, Liselotte. "The nature of configurationality in LFG." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1310f160-283e-411e-a8d7-20ab4b3380c2.
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The central issue in this thesis is configurationality, which has broadly been defined in terms of a division of the world's languages based on their core syntactic structure. Specifically, languages are traditionally divided into so-called configurational and non-configurational languages. Configurational languages are assumed to be languages with many restrictions on word order, and non-configurational languages are assumed to be languages with very few or no word order restrictions. Many linguists posit a strict division between the two different types of languages. In this thesis I propose a non-derivational approach to configurationality, and I discuss in detail three posited characteristics of non-configurational languages (in comparison to configurational languages): free word order, discontinuous expressions and subject-object asymmetries in binding. I propose a four-way classification of languages instead of a two-way one, based on constraints on annotations on phrase structure nodes, both for argument functions and for information structural roles (such as topic and focus). I propose that this four-way distinction is what underlies configurationality. I show that discontinuous expressions and potentially subject-object symmetries follow from the nature of languages that have traditionally been classified as non-configurational. For my analysis I employ Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a non-derivational framework which is particularly well-suited to account for languages in which grammatical functions are not tied to specific phrase structural positions, due to its parallel architecture. This characteristic of LFG enables me to provide a straightforward classification of languages, by the ability to separate the influence of grammatical functions and information structural roles on word order and phrase structural configuration.
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Finch, Mary. "Adolescent writing development: Improving succinctness using the extended noun phrase." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/90736/4/Mary_Finch_Thesis.pdf.
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This study examined an aspect of adolescent writing development, specifically whether teaching secondary school students to use strategies to enhance succinctness in their essays changed the grammatical sophistication of their sentences. A quasi-experimental intervention was used to compare changes in syntactic complexity and lexical density between one-draft and polished essays. No link was demonstrated between the intervention and the changes. A thematic analysis of teacher interviews explored links between changes to student texts and teaching approaches. The study has implications for making syntactic complexity an explicit goal of student drafting.
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Karlsson, Anna. "Läromedel på villovägar : Styrdokumentens korrelation med läromedel med utgångspunkt i begreppen funktionell och formell grammatikundervisning." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-43407.
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I denna studie undersöks om styrdokument och läromedel korrelerar i sättet att se på grammatik i kursen Svenska 2 på gymnasiet, med utgångspunkt i begreppen funktionell respektive formell grammatikundervisning. Svenskämnets syfte, kunskapskrav och kommentarsmaterial tillsammans med grammatikavsnitten i läromedlen Svenska rum 2 och Svenska impulser 2 undersöks genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Den teoretiska utgångspunkten är en begreppsdefinition av funktionell och formell grammatik som innefattar sex olika kriterier för varje begrepp. I resultatet framkommer att styrdokumenten ger uttryck för ett mer funktionellt perspektiv på grammatik, medan läromedlet Svenska rum 2 ger uttryck för ett formellt perspektiv på grammatik. Läromedlet Svenska impulser 2 har både ett funktionellt och formellt perspektiv på grammatik. Det finns en formell grund men läromedlet innehåller flera funktionella ansatser, därför har läromedlets grammatikavsnitt tolkats som mer funktionell än formell. Slutsatsen som kan dras är således att Svenska impulser 2 kan anses korrelera med styrdokumenten, trots att de funktionella aspekterna skulle kunna utvecklas ytterligare. Styrdokumenten kan dock inte anses korrelera med grammatikavsnittet i Svenska rum 2 efter begreppet funktionell grammatik.This essay aims to examine whether or not the syllabi and teaching materials correlate in their views on grammar in the upper secondary school course Swedish 2, in regards to functional and formal grammar teaching. The aim of the subject, knowledge requirements and commentary materials, as well as the grammar sections of the teaching materials Svenska rum 2 and Svenska impulser 2, are examined through a qualitative text analysis. The theoretical assumption for the study is based on a definition of the concepts of functional and formal grammar, where each concept is defined by six different criteria. The results show that the syllabus favor a more functional perspective on grammar, whereas the teaching material Svenska rum 2 favors a more formal perspective on grammar. The teaching material Svenska impulser 2 expresses both a functional and a formal perspective on grammar. Its basis is a formal perspective on grammar, but the material includes several functional approaches to grammar and has therefore been interpreted as more functional than formal. This study concludes that Svenska impulser 2 can be considered to correlate with the syllabus, even though the functional aspects could be developed further. However, the syllabus cannot be considered to correlate with the grammar sections in Svenska rum 2 in regards to the concept of functional grammar.
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Carrascossi, Cibele Naidhig de Souza [UNESP]. "Gramaticalização e (inter)subjetivização na modalização em português: um estudo de pode ser." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103578.
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Neste trabalho, investiga-se a expressão modalizadora pode ser em dois contextos sintáticos distintos: a) como predicado encaixador de proposição (pode ser1); b) como construção independente (pode ser2). Nesses contextos, o verbo modal constitui, com a forma infinitiva, uma fórmula fixa, rotinizada, com alta produtividade no nível discursivo. Assim, sob base teórica funcionalista (DIK, 1997a, 1997b), busca-se descrever a atuação de pode ser nos níveis semântico, sintático e pragmático. Para tanto, o corpus utilizado é composto por textos contemporâneos do português brasileiro, de escrita e de fala. Investigam-se os processos subjacentes à multiplicidade de usos da construção, avaliando-se a hipótese de gramaticalização (HEINE et al., 1991b; TRAUGOTT; HEINE, 1991; HOPPER; TRAUGOTT, 1993, entre outros) e de (inter)subjetivização (TRAUGOTT, 1989, 1995a, 2010, entre outros; TRAUGOTT; DASHER, 2002). A pesquisa revela que há encaminhamentos condizentes com a gramaticalização, mas que não podem ser tomados como definitivos em relação à identificação do processo. As propriedades modalizadoras da construção são exploradas. Pode ser1 apresenta-se como uma forma consolidada de avaliação epistêmica, enquanto pode ser2 não se restringe a esse domínio modal e ambos os usos podem manifestar diferentes direções de modalização: orientada para o falante (marcada pela subjetividade) e orientada para o ouvinte (marcada pela intersubjetividade). O exame das características semânticas e discursivas das ocorrências aponta para um desenvolvimento próprio de (inter)subjetivização. Observa-se, com isso, que a operação da construção desliza da sintaxe (pode ser1) para o discurso (pode ser2). Como predicado matriz, pode ser1 indexa posicionamento epistêmico do enunciador em relação ao...
In this work, we explore the modalized expression pode ser, in two different syntactic contexts: a) as a predicate of an embedded proposition (pode ser1); b) as an independent structure (pode ser2). In these contexts, the modal verb constitutes, with the infinitive form, a fixed formula, routinized, with high productivity on the discursive level. Therefore, based on a functionalist theory (DIK, 1997a, 1997b), we seek to describe the operation of pode ser on semantic, syntactic and pragmatic levels. For this, the used corpus is made of contemporary Brazilian Portuguese texts, amidst writing and speech. We explore the processes underlying the multiplicity of uses of the structure, evaluating the grammaticalization hypothesis (HEINE et al., 1991b; TRAUGOTT; HEINE, 1991; HOPPER; TRAUGOTT, 1993, and others) and also the (inter)subjectification (TRAUGOTT, 1989, 1995a, 2010, and others; TRAUGOTT; DASHER, 2002). The analyses reveal consistent referrals towards grammaticalization, although they cannot be seen as definitive, regarding the process‟ identification. The modalized qualities of the structure are also explored. Pode ser1 shows itself as a consolidated form of epistemic evaluation, whilst pode ser2 is not restricted to this modal domain, and both uses of the structure may express different modalization directions: speaker-oriented (marked by subjectivity) and listener-oriented (marked by the intersubjectivity). The examination of the semantic and discursive characteristics of occurrences points towards a unique development of its (inter)subjectification. We can observe that the structure‟s construction slips from syntax (pode ser1) to discourse (pode ser2). As a matrix predicate, pode ser1 indexes the enunciator‟s epistemic position, in relation to the embedded... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Arnold, Julie L. "Building linguistic subject knowledge for writing instruction: Teacher responses to professional learning." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/127244/1/Julie_Arnold_Thesis.pdf.
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This study contributes to knowledge about teacher professional learning, in particular a theorisation of the process of turning linguistic subject knowledge into effective pedagogy for writing. The research project explored teacher responses to professional learning about language in the Australian Curriculum: English, Year 10. Systemic functional linguistics provided a framework for collaborative decision-making about specific professional learning needs. Design-based research methodology provided insight into how teachers' developing knowledge base influenced decisions about the planning and delivery of writing instruction. Further, Lee Shulman's approach to pedagogical reasoning and action supported an analysis of teachers' accounts of the decisions they made.
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Morapedi, Setumile. "The syntax of locative inversion and related constructions in Setswana : an approach to information structure in lexical functional grammar." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441626.
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Sampaio, Francisco de Oliveira. "Uma abordagem funcionalista para o ensino da transitividade verbal no Ensino Fundamental." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2015. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=14964.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel SuperiorO presente trabalho tem como objetivo discutir o ensino de gramÃtica na escola, especificamente propondo abordagens para o ensino-aprendizagem da transitividade nas aulas de lÃngua portuguesa no Ensino Fundamental. Em alguns compÃndios da lÃngua portuguesa, o assunto à tratado como regÃncia, em outros, como transitividade e, ainda, como predicaÃÃo verbal. Com base nas contribuiÃÃes apontadas por Neves (2002, 2006) e Nogueira (2005, 2010), entre outros autores, pesquisamos o assunto sob a Ãtica da linguÃstica funcional, para verificar se as teorias funcionalistas podem inspirar uma contribuiÃÃo para o entendimento de certos pontos discutidos e ainda obscuros sobre os conceitos e classificaÃÃes propostos pela gramÃtica tradicional. O trabalho parte de uma pesquisa bibliogrÃfica para elaboraÃÃo e posterior aplicaÃÃo de uma proposta de sequÃncia de atividades numa abordagem funcionalista. Essa pesquisa realizou-se a partir de comparaÃÃes feitas entre as gramÃticas tradicionais, gramÃticas escolares da atualidade, livros didÃticos adotados atualmente nas escolas, assim como o que dizem os documentos oficiais sobre o ensino de gramÃtica. AlÃm disso, abordamos o tema transitividade no funcionalismo linguÃstico e apontamos as contribuiÃÃes de teorias funcionalistas para o ensino da transitividade verbal. Foi possÃvel confirmar a hipÃtese de que o ensino-aprendizagem da transitividade verbal, entendida a partir da construÃÃo da predicaÃÃo segundo uma orientaÃÃo funcionalista, isto Ã, relacionando esse conteÃdo programÃtico com a produÃÃo e interpretaÃÃo de sentidos do texto, contribui para a ampliaÃÃo da competÃncia discursiva dos alunos do oitavo ano do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pÃblica de CrateÃs-CE.
This work has the objective to discuss the grammar teaching in school, specifically addressing how the teaching and learning of transitivity have been taken to the Portuguese language classes in primary education in public schools. The importance of the subject is given by the fact that the same finding divergence from the field of study in which it is inserted. In some textbooks of the Portuguese language, it is treated as regency, in others as transitivity as well as verbal predication. These differences have led us to research the subject from the perspective of functional linguistics to see if this approach had contribution in ways that could settle certain points discussed and still unclear on the concepts and classifications proposed by traditional grammar. The work is of bibliographical, but with the presentation of a proposal for activities sequence in a functionalist approach and took place from comparisons made between traditional grammars school of today grammars, textbooks adopted today in schools, as well as what they say the official documents of the grammar school. In addition, we address the issue in the linguistic functionalism vision and aim the contributions of functionalist theories for teaching verbal transitivity.
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Teixeira, Carlos Honorato. "A experiência executiva da liderança pela interpretação do significado: uma tipologia baseada na gramática sistêmico-funcional." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12139/tde-11072012-160119/.
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O contexto econômico e social deste início de milênio impactado pela globalização dos mercados, emergência de novas potências, por conflitos sociais, desafios de sustentabilidade do planeta e uma das maiores crises do capitalismo no hemisfério ocidental indica a carência e a necessidade de novas lideranças para conduzir pessoas em países e organizações por esses ambientes turbulentos. Diante deste contexto, este estudo busca avançar na fronteira de estudos da liderança, associando as abordagens e discussões mais recentes neste campo com a expressão e manifestação de significado por executivos sobre suas próprias carreiras. Para tanto, aplicou-se a abordagem da gramática sistêmico-funcional como ferramenta de análise de redações autobiográficas de executivos, alunos de oito turmas de um curso de pós graduação - MBA Executivo Internacional - interpretando a expressão de significado em suas carreiras. Com base nestas informações sobre a expressão do significado e na classificação das características de liderança expressas por esses executivos, sendo estas inatas ou agênticas; transacionais ou transformacionais, propõem-se uma nova tipologia relacionando características de liderança com o significado.The economic and social context of this new millennium has been impacted by the marketing globalization, emergence of new powers, social conflicts, challenges in sustainability and one of the deepest crises of financial capitalism in the Western Hemisphere in many years. It all suggests the lack and needing for new leadership to lead countries and organizations for these turbulent environments. In this context, this study seeks to advance the leadership studies frontier, combining the latest approaches and discussions in leadership\'s field, discussing the expression and manifestation of meaning by executives in their own careers. We apply the approach of systemicfunctional grammar to study executive\'s autobiographical essays, as a tool to construing the experience through meaning. Students from eight classes from a graduate course - Executive MBA - wrote their own autobiographical essays and by construing the expression of meaning in their careers, we analyzed the frequency of verbal processes. Based on that information, on the expression of the meaning, and sorting all verbs used in four categories, two by two, taken-for-granted or agentic; and transactional or transformational traits, we propose a new typology of leadership characteristics relating to the meaning expressed.
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Wee, Constance Wei-Ling Languages & Linguistics Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "Mobilising action through management email texts: the negotiation of evaluative stance through choices in discourse and grammar." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Languages & Linguistics, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43514.
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This thesis is concerned with explicating the role of language in mobilising action through management emails. Situated within the context of organisational change in a globalised manufacturing business, the project is framed by behavioural observations from management scholars Palmer and Hardy (2000) of mobilisation strategies that utilise linguistic resources since they: (a) involve a sense of obligation or inclination in directives; (b) show how co-operation will produce mutual benefits; (c) construct desired actions as legitimate, beneficial or inevitable; and (d) use past or anticipated meanings, for or against certain actions. Systemic Functional Linguistics is the underlying framework employed to provide a theoretically principled account of the intuitively derived observations from Palmer and Hardy (2000) which are applied to a sample of twenty-seven email texts, through corpus- and text-based analysis. A major finding is that the representation of action is enacted interpersonally through the verbal group. This view complements experientially dominated accounts of the verbal group which focus on the tense system. Further, action is found to be motivated through the negotiation of evaluative stance. By relating the grammar of the verbal group as well as other resources to the discourse semantics of Appraisal, modulation (of obligation or inclination) is found to be enabled by both negative as well as positive judgements of capacity. Specifically, judgements of capacity are re-interpreted as invocations of high obligation as managers seek to mobilise (further) positive performance. The analysis demonstrates that elements in the verbal group (complex) and Appraisal co-opt action through enabling positioning of the writer, in terms of assessing and grading categorical meanings, manipulating interpersonal time, or foregrounding solidarity. A significant contribution to the thesis is an extension of the system of GRADUATION: FOCUS (Hood, 2004a) through the demonstration of how resources of the verbal group negotiate expectations of appearances and achievements. This study has also extended the resources of GRADUATION: FORCE by applying it to the management context. The practical contribution of the study is that these insights may more explicitly inform management training and enable managers to participate more effectively within their community of practice.
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Botha, Yolande Vanessa. "Specification in the English nominal group with reference to student writing / Yolande Vanessa Botha." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8242.
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In this thesis the structure of the nominal group in Black South African English (BSAfE)
is investigated by means of a comparison of data from the Tswana Learner English
Corpus (TLEC) and the Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays (LOCNESS). Both
corpora consist of student essays and are sub-corpora of the International Corpus of
Learner English (ICLE). The TLEC represents a non-native variety of English, namely
BSAfE, while LOCNESS represents native English from the United States and the
United Kingdom.
In the existing literature there are observations about and examples of (non-standard)
characterizing features of BSAfE pertaining to nouns, determiners and quantifiers (e.g.
Gough 1996), but until now, no in-depth study of the grammar of the nominal group in
BSAfE has been undertaken. This study is an attempt to fill that gap. I present a
description of the grammatical features of BSAfE observed in the corpus data in terms
of linguistic functions and without assuming that they are errors or evidence of
deficiencies. Though the approach is comparative (in the sense that a control corpus is
used), it is primarily descriptive and non-normative, and as such, function-based. This
study is conducted within the theoretical framework of functional linguistics, drawing on
systemic functional linguistics as well as other functional and cognitive approaches to
language.
The specifying functions that the nominal group and its elements may fulfill form the
basis of the descriptive framework. These functions are (1) the type-specifying function
of the noun, (2) the (referent-)specifying function of the determiner, (3) quantification
and (4) quality specification by modifiers and complements. The type-specifying
function of the noun is particularly relevant in Chapter 4, which deals with the
grammatical patterns of the noun people, although it also informs analyses in Chapters
5 and 6 which deal with determiners and quantification respectively. Quality
specification is especially relevant in the description of the grammatical patterns of the
noun people.
The noun people is the most frequent noun in each of the corpora, but is at the same
time a positive keyword in the TLEC, which means that it occurs much more frequently
in the TLEC than in LOCNESS. Analysis of the full corpus concordances of this noun
provides much evidence of anti-deletion in BSAfE (as first postulated by Mesthrie, 2006) and also sheds some light on left dislocation patterns involving the noun people
(cf. Mesthrie, 1997). This analysis also reveals unique uses of the definite article and
certain quantifying constructions in the TLEC data, which are investigated in the next
two analysis chapters.
A comparison of concordance samples of the articles indicates that the
definite/indefinite distinction is made in both corpora and that there is not enough
corpus evidence to postulate that there is a different system underlying the choice of
article in BSAfE, such as a system based principally on the specific/non-specific
distinction, as postulated by Platt, Weber and Ho (1984) for New Englishes in general.
Analysis of the concordances of demonstrative and possessive determiners indicate
that these determiners are used proportionally more frequently in the TLEC than in
LOCNESS. Concordances of the words that are normally classified as quantifiers
indicate that there are many more partitive-of quantifying constructions in the TLEC
than in LOCNESS. The words some and most are positive keywords in the TLEC.
After analyses of their concordances, it is concluded that their relative frequency can
be attributed to the fact that some is often used merely as an indefinite marker and that
most is often used as a synonym for many.
The study shows that BSAfE largely shares its general grammar of the nominal group
with other (including native) varieties of English, but at a finer level of analysis, some
characteristic constructions and uses are detected. The corpus data indicate that the
unique constructions in the TLEC data are mostly functionally motivated. These
constructions represent conventionalized innovations in the sense used by Van Rooy
(2010), rather than mere language learning errors.Thesis (PhD (Linguistics and Literary Theory))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012
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Câmara, Aliana Lopes [UNESP]. "Multifuncionalidade e gramaticalização de Já no português falado culto." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/86612.
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This study aims at investigating and describing the multifunctional character of the particle já in Standard Spoken Brazilian Portuguese. It mainly emphasizes the levels and layers of analysis from Dik's Functional Grammar (1989) and from the recent Functional Discourse Grammar (HENGEVELD, 1989 and 2004; HENGEVELD & MACKENZIE, forthc., in prep.). The main hypothesis is that there are several types of já which are distributed according to syntatic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics in different levels and layers of grammar. Among these types, there is the aspectual, which has characteristics similar to those of the use of already in English and which is analyzed as an inceptive aspect marker with different semantic functions in discourse according to Michaelis' proposal (1996) for the English language. The multifunctionality of já allows us to investigate this item as having more or less concrete characteristics, which suggests the involvement of a grammaticalization process. In this sense, it is necessary to apply: (i) the general principles (HOPPER, 1991) and (ii) the cognitive domains (SWEETSER, 1991), among others. Besides this, our definition of grammaticalization goes beyond the traditional definition, according to it, the grammaticalization is a process in which the lexical item assumes more grammatical characteristics, or a grammatical item becomes even more grammatical. In addition, according to Traugott (1995), the item in this process may show an increase of discursive characteristics, leading to an understanding of Discourse as part of the grammar of the language. This theoretical option is coherent with the multifunctional proposal addopted, since in FDG the Discourse is one of the levels of analysis in the grammar. The linguistic samples of já were taken from the minimum corpus of the Spoken Portuguese Grammar Project, which is built with data of the NURC Project.
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Filetti, Elisandra. "Objetos implícitos no português contemporâneo falado em Goiás: uma abordagem funcional." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2014. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/4518.
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This paper proposes to examine the Implicit Objects in the Portuguese spoken in Goias, from a functionalist conception of language, based on the work of Hopper and Thompson (1980, 2001); Dik (1989, 1997); Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008); García Velasco and Portero Muñoz (2002), among others. The study of Implicit Objects is supported by the studies that discusses the Transitive phenomenon, as well as research on the Implicit Object behavior in Brazilian Portuguese and in others natural languages. These phenomena come from a pragmatic intention´s speakers that trigger the production and reception of linguistic phenomena, according to the grammatical terms available in a given language. Thus, it is considered that the language system as a whole is guided by pragmatic conditions grammatically organizes the languages. The phenomenon of verbal transitivity is fundamental to the understanding of Implicit Objects, its presents a notion scale, continuous and not categorical, according to which degrees of Transitive also reflect the cognitive salience of knowledge and experiences of the speakers. The selection or not a verbal argument to the object position seems to transcend the limits of a sentence, extending throughout the discursive context. So, we tried to explain how the production of Implicit Objects, as well as the recovery of the sense of the implicit elements, by the speakers, is processed in the grammar of the Brazilian Portuguese. For this, we used the corpus "The Contemporary Portuguese spoken in Goias." The Data on Implicit Objects focus on direct transitive sentences, from which settled the subdivision of Implicit Objects in definite and indefinite. The distribution in these two great classes allowed us to analyze how the referent of these implicit elements can be resumed at the interaction. Furthmore, we developed a discussion about how to Functional Grammar (DIK, 1989, 1997) and the Functional Discourse Grammar (Hengeveld and Mackenzie, 2008) have theoretical support for the analysis of Implicit Objects, from a pragmatic and discoursive orientation of this phenomenon. The Implicit Objects in the Goiás speech are represented by 65.45% Defined Implicit Objects, whose anaphoric reference can be found in the linguistic context, and by 34, 55% of Implicit Objects white noise, to which reference can be deduced by inference or from terms of undefined nature with which the implicit element establishes thematic relationship. Understand how events are motivated discoursive, noting how the degrees of transitivity in larger discursive units that prayer is central to a broader reading of the phenomenon and how their occurrence in the language layers, promotes the interpretation of Implicit Objects as the dialogue strategies of Portuguese spoken in Goias.
Este trabalho propõe-se a analisar os Objetos Implícitos no Português Falado em Goiás, a partir de uma concepção funcionalista de linguagem, fundamentado nos trabalhos de HOPPER e THOMPSON (1980, 2001); DIK (1989, 1997); HENGEVELD e MACKENZIE (2008); GARCÍA VELASCO e PORTERO MUÑOZ (2002), entre outros. O estudo dos Objetos Implícitos apoia-se em trabalhos que discutem o fenômeno de Transitividade, assim como em pesquisas acerca do comportamento de Objetos Implícitos no Português do Brasil e em outras línguas naturais. Esses fenômenos são oriundos de uma intenção pragmática dos falantes, que desencadeiam a produção e recepção dos fenômenos linguísticos, de acordo com as condições gramaticais disponíveis numa dada língua. Assim, considera-se que o sistema linguístico, como um todo, é orientado por condições pragmáticas que organizam gramaticalmente as línguas. O fenômeno da Transitividade verbal é fundamental para o entendimento dos Objetos Implícitos, pois apresenta uma noção escalar, contínua e não categórica, segundo a qual graus de Transitividade refletem também a saliência cognitiva dos conhecimentos e das experiências vivenciadas pelos falantes. A seleção ou não de um argumento verbal para a posição objeto parece transcender os limites oracionais, estendendo-se a todo o contexto discursivo. Assim, procurou-se explicar como a produção de Objetos Implícitos, assim como a recuperação do sentido dessa categoria implícita, por parte dos falantes, é processada na gramática do Português do Brasil. Para isso, foi utilizado o corpus “O Português Contemporâneo Falado em Goiás”. Os dados relativos aos Objetos Implícitos incidem sobre orações transitivas diretas, a partir das quais se estabeleceu a subdivisão dos Objetos Implícitos em definidos e indefinidos. A distribuição nessas duas grandes classes permitiu analisar de que modo o referente desses elementos implícitos pode ser retomado na interação. Além disso, foi desenvolvida uma discussão acerca do modo como a Gramática Funcional (DIK, 1989, 1997) e a Gramática Discursivo-Funcional (HENGEVELD e MACKENZIE, 2008) apresentam suporte teórico para a análise dos Objetos Implícitos, a partir de uma orientação pragmático-discursiva desse fenômeno. Os Objetos Implícitos na fala goiana são representados por 65,45% de Objetos Implícitos Definidos, cuja referência anafórica pode ser encontrada no contexto linguístico, e por 34, 55% de Objetos Implícitos Indefinidos, cuja referência pode ser depreendida, mediante inferenciação ou a partir de termos de natureza indefinda com os quais o element implícito estabelece relação temática. Compreender o modo como ocorrências são motivadas discursivamente, observando-se como os graus de Transitividade, em unidades discursivas maiores que a oração, são fundamentais para uma leitura mais ampla do fenômeno e como sua ocorrência nas camadas linguísticas, favorece a interpretação dos Objetos Implícitos como as estratégias de interlocução dos falantes no Português Goiano Falado.
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Schell, Karyn. "Functional categories and the acquisition of aspect in L2 Spanish : a longitudinal study /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8407.
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