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- Agreement variation in European Portuguese dilaects: on syntactic conditions for the alternation 3SG/3PLPublication . Cardoso, Adriana; Carrilho, Ernestina; Pereira, SandraIn this paper we scrutinize a case of concord variation in European Portuguese (EP) concerning third singular vs. third plural verbal agreement in the co-presence of an overt plural argument, which in the standard variety agrees with the inflected verb. The paper is focused on the linguistic factors that correlate with singular concord in this context. Going beyond previous proposals that emphasize the correlation between agreement variation and particular morphological and phonological factors, it is shown that there exist syntactic conditions that favor the incidence of non-standard singulars in EP. The empirical basis for this investigation is CORDIAL-SIN, a dialect corpus of EP (600,000 words). The evidence from this corpus leads us to discuss and reconsider the role that different linguistic factors play in the manifestation of non-standard singulars. It is shown that this case of third singular agreement occurs in EP dialects in correlation with particular syntactic conditions, mainly in unaccusative-like configurations. Furthermore, it is suggested that this kind of agreement variation may be ultimately ascribed to lexical variation concerning the availability and feature specification of (null) expletives.
- A anotação sintática de textos medievais portuguesesPublication . Pereira, Sandra
- Causative and Perception Constructions in European Portuguese: the dialectal dataPublication . Pereira, SandraThis paper deals with the infinitival complements of the causative and perception verbs in European Portuguese (EP) dialects. It is based on the corpus CORDIAL-SIN (Syntax-Oriented Corpus of Portuguese Dialects – cf. http://www.clul.ul.pt/en/researcher/225-description-cordial-sin-syntax-oriented-corpus-ofportuguese- dialects) and its main goal is to describe these constructions and contrast them with the ones described for the standard EP. On one hand, the constructions identified in the standard variety, such as 1) Inflected Infinitive, 2) Exceptional Case Marking (ECM), 3) Faire-Inf and 4) Gerundial Infinitive (only for perception verbs), can be found in Portuguese dialects; by contrast, other (dialectal) non identified constructions occur in the dialectal corpus. Additionally, it is also our aim to map these different constructions in an attempt to detect some geolinguistic variation to identify syntactic areas. In what concerns the standard variety of EP, the ECM construction seems to be more common. This trend however is not confirmed by this dialectal data. Surprisingly, ECM constructions (as well as the Inflected Infinitive ones) do not show up very often and are not spread over the whole territory. Given the small amount of available data, namely for ECM construction, a parallelism between some EP varieties and other Romance languages can be suggested. In fact, it seems that this construction is not accessible in some EP varieties like it happens in the other Romance languages. In contrast, the Faire-Inf construction, which is the most frequent construction in the corpus and it is spread over the continental territory, is not found on the data from Madeira.
- A Comment on Comment Clauses: Data from European PortuguesePublication . Cardoso, Aida; Pereira, Sandra; Veloso, RitaIn this study, we analyze the prosodic realization of comment clauses in European Portuguese in a corpus of spontaneous speech: the Portuguese C-ORAL-ROM corpus. Focusing our analysis on comment clauses involving the verb ‘dizer’ (‘to say’), our main goal is to find if there is a pattern in the prosodic realization of similar comment clauses. Building on regular patterns found for the prosodic structure of these constructions, we discuss systematic relations between prosody and discourse structure in terms of semantic-pragmatic meaning. Our data evidences some regularities in the behaviour of comment clauses involving the verb ‘dizer’ (‘to say’), but we also found asymmetries between the prosodic realization of comment clauses constructed with different verb forms (the conditional form ‘diria’ –‘I would say’ –and the subjunctive form ‘digamos’ –‘let’s say’). We discuss these results considering three main points: (i) the results that have been described for parentheticals (and especially comment clauses) for other languages, (ii) the relation between prosodic structure and scope disambiguation, and (iii) the role of the concept of ‘cline of grammaticalization’ (Dehé & Wichmann, 2010) in the understanding of the status of comment clauses in the informational structure of the sentence.
- Complete blood count parameters as biomarkers of retinopathy of prematurity: a Portuguese multicenter studyPublication . Fevereiro-Martins, Mariza; Santos, Ana Carolina; Marques-Neves, Carlos; Guimarães, Hercília; Bicho, Manuel; Afonso, Conceição; Ferreira, Joana; Santo, Rita Espírito; Jorge Teixeira, Filipa; Rosa, Rita; Carneiro, Cristina Vaz; Ferreira, Marta; Matos, Teresa; Neiva, Luísa; Pereira, Sandra; Aires, Sofia; Parreira, Ricardo; Melnik, Zuzana; Faria, João; Teixeira, Joana; Barros, Pedro; Almeida, Juliana; Malheiro, Bruna; Rodrigues, Patrícia Cunha; Albuquerque, Luís; Freitas, Alice; Kotchekova, Nadezda; Freitas, Rui; Silveira, Ana Cristina; Ferreira, Ana; Morais, Benvinda; Teixeira, Susana; Mota, Mafalda; Guerra, Maria; Coimbra, Lúcia; Gigante, João; Ferreira, Muriel; Lapa, Patrícia; Monteiro, Madalena; Alfaiate, Mário; Rodrigues, Teresa; Pina, Teresa; Rosário, Marta; Silva, Renato; Breda, Jorge; Bazenga, Filipa; Pinto, João AntónioPurpose: To evaluate complete blood count (CBC) parameters in the first week of life as predictive biomarkers for the development of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Methods: Multicenter, prospective, observational study of a cohort of preterm infants born with gestational age (GA) < 32 weeks or birth weight < 1500 g in eight Portuguese neonatal intensive care units. All demographic, clinical, and laboratory data from the first week of life were collected. Univariate logistic regression was used to assess risk factors for ROP and then multivariate regression was performed. Results: A total of 455 infants were included in the study. The median GA was 29.6 weeks, and the median birth weight was 1295 g. One hundred and seventy-two infants (37.8%) developed ROP. Median values of erythrocytes (p < 0.001), hemoglobin (p < 0.001), hematocrit (p < 0.001), mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (p < 0.001), lymphocytes (p = 0.035), and platelets (p = 0.003) of the group of infants diagnosed with ROP any stage were lower than those without ROP. Mean corpuscular volume (MCV) (p = 0.044), red blood cell distribution width (RDW) (p < 0.001), erythroblasts (p < 0.001), neutrophils (p = 0.030), neutrophils-lymphocytes ratio (p = 0.028), and basophils (p = 0.003) were higher in the ROP group. Higher values of MCV, erythroblasts, and basophils remained significantly associated with ROP after multivariate regression. Conclusion: In our cohort, the increase in erythroblasts, MCV, and basophils in the first week of life was significantly and independently associated with the development of ROP. These CBC parameters may be early predictive biomarkers for ROP.
- Construções comparativas em português: porque algumas são mais iguais que outrasPublication . Pereira, Sandra; Pinto, Clara; Pratas, FernandaIn Portuguese comparative constructions of inequality, either do que or que may be the syntactic heads of the Degree Clause. There are, however, differences in their distribution: do que is allowed in all contexts, whereas que is barred whenever the Degree Clause includes a finite verb phonologically realized. In the present paper we claim that all canonical comparative constructions in European Portuguese include two full clauses and that, whenever some constituents of the Degree Clause are phonologically null, what we have is a case of ellipsis, whose extent is different for do que and que.
- Construções comparativas em português: porque algumas são mais iguais que outras.Publication . Pereira, Sandra; Pinto, Clara; Pratas, FernandaIn Portuguese comparative constructions of inequality, either do que or que may be the syntactic heads of the Degree Clause. There are, however, differences in their distribution: do que is allowed in all contexts, whereas que is barred whenever the Degree Clause includes a finite verb phonologically realized. In the present paper we claim that all canonical comparative constructions in European Portuguese include two full clauses and that, whenever some constituents of the Degree Clause are phonologically null, what we have is a case of ellipsis, whose extent is different for do que and que.
- Construções percetivas e ordem de palavras num texto medievalPublication . Pereira, SandraA análise da ordem de palavras envolvidas nas estruturas de verbos percetivos (ouvir, sentir e ver) com complementos infinitivos em português antigo constitui-se como o principal objetivo deste estudo. Partindo de trabalhos anteriores para o português europeu contemporâneo padrão (cf. Gonçalves 1999; Duarte & Gonçalves 2002) e dialetal (Pereira 2012), este estudo destaca a posição e a forma do chamado “sujeito da oração infinitiva”, pretendendo contribuir para o estudo das construções percetivas (e, por extensão, das causativas, uma vez que apresentam semelhanças estruturais) na história do português. Este estudo visa igualmente dar conta das vantagens da utilização de um sistema de anotação sintática para o estudo das propriedades gramaticais de construções muito específicas. Essa demonstração é feita a partir de um texto medieval, O Livro de José de Arimateia, na edição de Castro (1984). Este texto foi recentemente anotado (morfológica e sintaticamente) no âmbito do projeto WOChWEL, que segue os sistemas de anotação da equipa do Tycho Brahe Corpus, fortemente inspirados na anotação dos Penn corpora.
- Estudos Linguísticos e Filológicos Oferecidos a Ivo CastroPublication . Carrilho, Ernestina; Martins, Ana Maria; Pereira, Sandra; Silvestre, João Paulo
- Foreword: challenging the frontiers between "nations"Publication . Pratas, Fernanda; Pereira, Sandra; Pinto, Clara