Revista de Estudos da Linguagem

7-48

Authors: Eunice Nicolau

The paper examines the occurrence of post-verbal DP in inacusativesentences, which is traditionally treated as the V-S Order and stillpresented in BP. Assuming the Minimalist program (CHOMSKY,1995) and ZUBIZARRETTA (1995), this paper proposes that in BP:i) the sentences treated, in the literature, as case of V-S Order areconstructed based on a Numeration containing [-accusative] verband an element specified by the [+F] trace, from which results anApresentative structure; ii) in BP the [-accusative] DP generated inthe inner position of V and specified with [+F] feature stays in thatposition, where it receives the main stress of the sentence so that itis a Nominative Object; iii) the inacusative sentences, which aretraditionally regarded as having the V-S Order, leave the SVOstructure. Therefore there is no possibity of treating them as theV-S Order in BP.

71-94

Authors: Hildo Honório do Couto

The aim of this article is to discuss the way the Portuguese Creoleof Guinea-Bissau codifies the semantically opposite actions ofundoing (DE-ACTION) and redoing (RE-ACTION) an act, not onlymorphologically, but also semantically and ecologically, i.e., intheir interralations with the social ecosystem of which they arepart. ln the lexifier language (Portuguese), they are codifiedprefixally, namely, by means of des- ‘un-, de-’ and re- ‘re-’,respectively. Using the methodology of corpus linguistics, I showthat the creole codifies only DE-ACTION morphologically, via theprefix dis-. As to RE-ACTION, lt is expressed only syntactically, bymeans of the equivalent of “again”, exactly as in children’s speech.The findings are compared to what happens in other lexifier creolesand in Portuguese. Some suggestions are given for why creole hasonly the prefix dis-, but not its opposite. Finally, I suggest that thebehavior of dis- in this language calls for an independentmorphological component of the grammar roughly like what canbe seen in lexical phonology and morphology.

119-147

Authors: Carla Viana Coscarelli

In this paper we discuss some of the cognitive processes involvedin reading, and the relationship among them. We also present areading model, that may be called linear or serial, which is basedon the theory of the modularity of the mind defended by Fodor(1983). Based on criticisms of this model, another is proposed,which, however, supports the parallel processing of the information.We propose as well a review of some concepts involved in thereading process, taking the relevance theory, proposed by Sperberand Wilson (1986/95), as a starting point.

163-171

Authors: Valeska Zanello; Francisco Martins

Heidegger, in his most radical work, “Unterwegs zur Sprache”,pointed out the role of the unnamable in the poetic performanceas possibilibity of experiencing speech. In this sense, it would bein the lack of words that the dimension of the word as restorer ofbeing and the world becomes more evident. This article aims todiscuss how the experience of the unnamable, present as existentialpain in Marguerite Duras’s writings, opens up the possibility offorming a fertile soil for the occurrence of that experience.

197-222

Authors: Maria José Bocorny Finatto

This article focusses on apprehending the nature and functioningof the terminological definition (DT), observed beyond the limitsof the categories of genus proximum and differentia specifica. Thearticle concludes that the recognition of the defining utterancerelated to the meaning environment of the scientific languagesinvolved is important, showing that the definition is amultidimensional textual object, with features that make it exceedthe more usual or traditional limits of a categorical-logical object.Furthermore, the study demonstrates that a strict a priori separationbetween concepts and meanings is not functional.

245-252

Authors: Elisângela Gonçalves da Silva

RESENHA SILVA,Maria da Conceição Fonseca.Questões de linguagem: gramática,texto e discurso. Vitória da Conquista:UESB, 2001. 116p.