Portuguese Linguistics
Code
711131069
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Linguística
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Ana Monção Fernandes
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
This course aims to lead students to:
a) reflect on concepts, methods, perspectives and objectives of General Linguistics and its application to the Portuguese Linguistics;
b) characterize the main varieties of contemporary European Portuguese;
c) describe important aspects of European Portuguese, at the phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic and enunciation levels;
d) apply their knowledge in the analysis of diversified corpora of European Portuguese.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Language and Communication - units, description, methodologies
2. Phonetic and phonological aspects of Portuguese
- Phonological segments
- Classification of sounds
- Identification and distribution of sounds
- Variation in Portuguese
3. Morphological aspects of Portuguese
- Basic morphological structure
- Inflexional processes
- Formation of words by affixation
- Formation of words by composition
- Non morphological resources of word formation
4. Syntactic aspects of Portuguese
- Syntactic categories
- Sentence structure and sentence types
5. The Formal apparatus of enunciation
- Deixis
- Reference
- Modality
Bibliography
Campos, M. H. & Xavier, M. F. (1991). Sintaxe e Semântica do Português. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta.
Duarte, I. (2000). Língua Portuguesa. Instrumentos de análise. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta.
Faria, I., Pedro, E. R. & et al. (Orgs.) (1996). Introdução à Linguística Geral e Portuguesa. Lisboa: Caminho.
Mateus, M. H. M. (1990). Fonética, Fonologia e Morfologia do Português. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta.
Mateus, M. H. M. et al. (2004). Gramática da Língua Portuguesa. 6ª edição, revista e aumentada. Lisboa: Caminho.
Villalva, A. (2008). Morfologia do Português. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta.
Teaching method
Lectures and practical classes will take place, using recordings, videos and written material (selected texts, transcription of corpora and worksheets).
Evaluation method
The evaluation results of the average of two or three elements of assessment: two written tests (mandatory) and an oral presentation (optional).