SEMANTIC PRAGMATIC PROPERTIES OF NOMINAL HEAD MODIFIERS

• Grant number: 16/00661-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: May 01, 2016
• End date: February 28, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Roberto Gomes Camacho
• Grantee: Helker Nhoato
• 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

Abstract

This project aims to develop an analytical study of modifiers of the nominal head whose main feature is to denote zero order entities or properties, first-order entities or individuals; second-order entities or States of affairs and third-order entities or propositional contents (LYONS, 1977; GRAMMAR HENGEVELD, 2008). The analysis will be performed from the perspective of Theory of Functional Grammar's (DIK, 1989) Functional Discourse Grammar's theoretical assumptions (HENGEVELD & MACKENZIE, 2008). The sample to be analyzed will be extracted from Iboruna Corpus which was collect by ALIP Project, designed by Functional Grammar Research Group. The research proposed here gives priority to the pragmatic and semantic properties of the adjctives inside the NP as a motivation to evoke a referential subact at the Interpersonal Level and to establish a denotation, at the Representational level with reflections on the formal constitution of the constituents at the Morphosyntactic level.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

NHOATO, Helker. Semantic and pragmatic properties of modifiers of the noun phrase head. 2018. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Biociências Letras e Ciências Exatas. São José do Rio Preto São José do Rio Preto.