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Silveira Neto, Agripino De Souza – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Brazilian Portuguese (henceforth BP) has for long been considered as a Null-subject language due to its variability in regards to subject expression (e.g. "Era bom porque eu diminuia de peso...era muito gordinha" "That was good because then I could lose some weight...(I) was a bit chubby." C33:179). Such variability has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Portuguese, Pragmatics, Sentence Structure
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Bayley, Robert; Langman, Juliet – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2004
This article examines the relationship between group and individual patterns of variation in one area of the grammar: verbal morphology. The results of studies of the acquisition of English and Hungarian verbal morphology by Chinese learners show that individual patterns of variation closely match group patterns on several dimensions. Multivariate…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphemes, Multivariate Analysis, Verbs