Portuguese Grammar
Code
711131067
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Linguística
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Clara Nunes Correia, Helena Topa Valentim, Maria do Céu Caetano, Raquel Fonseca Amaro
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To identify different models and parts of the grammar;
b) To describe the main characteristics of sounds, words, sentences, utterances and texts in the Portuguese language;
c) To explain the functioning of Portuguese, through the analysis of observable data;
d) To Identify and describe distinctive characteristics of the Portuguese grammar.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1. Grammar and grammars: a. Portuguese grammars - perspectives and models; b. linguistic levels of grammatical analysis; c. standard Portuguese and other non-standard varieties; 2. Phonetics and phonology of Portuguese: a. articulatory phonetics classification; b. phonological processes; c. prosodic aspects of Portuguese
and the structure of syllables; 3. Morphology: a. lexicon b. inflection, derivation and compounding in Portuguese; c. semantic properties of lexicon; 4. Syntax analysis: a. sentences structure and grammatical functions; b. word classes and syntactic functions; c. sentences typology and syntactic constructions;
5. Semantics: nominal and verbal reference; b. anaphora and deixis; c. tense, aspect
and modality in Portuguese;
6. Pragmatics topics: verbal interaction principles and speech acts typology;
7. Grammatical topics of Portuguese Grammar .
Bibliography
BROCARDO, Mª Teresa. Tópicos de História da Língua Portuguesa. Lisboa: Colibri, 2014.
CAMPOS, Mª Henriqueta Costa & Mª Francisca Xavier. Sintaxe e Semântica do Português. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta, 1991.
CUNHA, Celso & Luis Filipe Lindley CINTRA. Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo. Lisboa: Ed. J. Sá da Costa, [1984] 2014. ( 21ª edição)
DUARTE, Inês, Língua Portuguesa. Instrumentos de Análise. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta, 2000.
MATEUS, Mª Helena Mira et al.. Gramática da Língua Portuguesa. Lisboa: Caminho, 2003.
MATEUS, Mª Helena Mira et al.. Fonética e Fonologia do Português. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta, 2005.
RAPOSO, Eduardo et al. (orgs). Gramática do Português. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2013.
VILLALVA, Alina. Morfologia do Português. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta, 2008.
Teaching method
This curricular unit is characterized by being a theoretical-practical level. Thus, from an initial schedule, to develop a balanced combination of theoretical and practical classes) is expected. At the beginning of the semester this information will be made available to students.
Evaluation method
As learning assessment, classroom tests (3) (quiz exams) will be presented, with the goal of assessment the learning of the different programmatic modules. These quizzes will have a weighting of 45% in the total evaluation of the Unit. Different types of autonomous work will also be proposed. These works, which are not mandatory, will support the work in class. The weighting of the work carried out will be 15% of the final grade. Finally, a final exam whose weight is 40%, will be proposed.