Temporal phrase modifiers in the varieties of Portuguese according to functional-discourse perspective

• Grant number: 12/15225-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: December 01, 2012
• End date: March 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Erotilde Goreti Pezatti
• Grantee: Ana Paula de Oliveira
• Supervisor: J. Lachlan Mackenzie
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Instituto de Linguística Teórica e Computacional (ILTEC), Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/02204-7 - Before, after and when relations in the varieties of portuguese language by functional-discourse perspective, BP.MS

Abstract

This research aims to investigate temporal phrase modifiers in the varieties of Portuguese in order to detect the motivations underlying the functional relationship between morphosyntactic structures used to encode the temporal relations and the conceptual situations they express. (AU)