Revista de Estudos da Linguagem

19-43

Authors: Adriana S. Marusso

This article presents the basic principles of the Acoustic Theory ofSpeech Production, also called Linear Source-filter Theory of SpeechProduction (FANT, 1960; KENT & READ, 1992; PICKETT, 1999).This description is justified since the theory is not available inPortuguese. This theory is useful in understanding articulatoryacousticrelationships. It may be applied to the analysis of a singlelanguage or in cross-linguistic studies. It also provides a foundationfor many procedures for the acoustic analysis of speech.

59-92

Authors: Werner Thielemann

The description of Amerindian languages is closely linked to theevangelization and catechesis of indigenous American peoples byreligious orders (Franciscans, Jesuits and others). Grammaticographyof native languages, since the discovery of America and for a longtime, was being influenced by the translation practice of catecheticalLatin texts and, in this way, from Ars grammaticae principles andterminology of Latin.Though being aware of the particularities of indigenouslanguages, missionaries do not trangress the degree of descriptive hybridity, evidenced by the Brasilian Grammar of Anchieta and alot of Mexican nahuatl grammars (Olmos, Carochi), discussed inthe article.Paradigmatic change arises with Historical ComparativeGrammar in Europe. The description of American languages changestotally, when, whit his knowledge of Basque, Whilhelm vonHumboldt recognizes the propositional value of the nahuatl verband identifies incorporation as the organizing principle. He initiallygives an adequate description and metalinguistic teminology forthe particularities of Amerindian languages. Throughout his life,he is tried to determine the structures of American languages, butthe very results of his endeavour were not published until after hisdeath (1835).

129-154

Authors: Maria José Foltran; Gisele Crisóstimo

In this paper we analyse the occurrences of verbal participial formsas adjuncts within a noun phrase. We also establish constraints thatdo not allow certain monoargumental verbs to occur in thisenvironment. Differently from participles of two argument verbs,we noticed that some participles of one argument verbs cannotwork as adjectives, while others can. This is because of the type ofarguments each verb selects: since the arguments of certain oneargument verbs share the same features of internal arguments, theparticiples of these verbs can occur as adjectives, and therefore wecan classify these as unaccusative verbs. We also investigate thesemantic properties of the arguments which allow a participialform as a modifier.

171-182

Authors: João Miguel Moreira Auto

The aim of this article is to discuss some important questions onthe meaning of the concept of “author”. First, it explains how RolandBarthes criticizes such a notion by stressing the reader’s role in thecomprehension of a text’s meaning. Then, Foucault is mentioned:he notes the important role the reader plays for the unity of thetext’s sense, but he is also aware of the possibility of a readable“author function”; the reader himself is the one who makes usrealize the actual existence of authorship. Also discussed is Possenti’shypothesis that it is possible to look for traces of authorship, forexample, in a simple text. Finally the following definition of theconcept is proposed: authorship is a kind of linguistic and discursiveattitude, an act of inscription by which the agent takes one’s standand articulates foregoing discourses and a later reception, accordingto personal tactics and specific style.