Revista de Estudos da Linguagem

19-29

Authors: Vera Lúcia Menezes de Oliveira Paiva

This artieIe presents a diachronic study ofsecond Ianguage teaching approaches as far as the notion of "structure" is concemed. The study demonstrates that the emphasis on syntatic strocture was a charaeteristic of the grammar-translation, the direet and the stroctural approaches. ln the communicative approach, it is shown, that discourse strocture became the main focus.

43-66

Authors: Maria Angélica Furtado Cunha

This paper presents a study of passive sentences of the type SUBJECT - BE - PAST PARTICIPLE - PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE. The data include formal written Portuguese as well as spoken Portuguese elicited in interviews. The pragrnatic function of the passive conceming text organization is discussed. The gradient notion of transitivity is employed as an indicator of the portion of the text (foreground/background) where the passive tends to occur

89-114

Authors: Márcia Cançado

This paper presents a descriptive analysis of the psychological verbs in Brazilian Portuguese. A new classification for these verbs is proposed: in the current literature we find two classes of psychverbs; I propose four different classes based on a fine-grained approach of thematic relations. AIso, I make a thorough revision of many syntactic and semantic properties of psych-verbs. Accorcling to this analysis, I present some clues towards a semantic approach to the problems related to those verbs. As there are interesting questions related to psych-verbs conceming the organization of argument structure, I hope the data presented are useful to other researchers from different lines, working with Brazilian Portuguese.

125-154

Authors: Samuel Moreira Silva

Cet article a pour but de créer le débat sur la question de l'interférence de la morpho-syntaxe comme une composante de la compétence linguistique, cette demiere, elle-même, médiatrice, à côté d'autres aptitudes, dans le processus de la construction de la connaissance du systeme d'écriture. Dn parallele s'établit , tout d'abord, entre la façon de voir la compétence phonologique et la compétence morpho syntaxique, la premiere ayant clairs ses points de reperes, et l'autre étant plongée dans une espece de brouillard théorique, aux lignes fioues, incertaines, obscures. La relation entre l'écriture et l'oralité - dont f'opposition est esquissée par la suitejoue un rôle important dans la discussion.