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The Great War and Remembrance in Jose Leon Machado's "Memoria das Estrelas sem Brilho"
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Azevedo, Milton M. – Hispania, 2011
This article analyzes Jose Leon Machado's novel, "Memoria das Estrelas sem Brilho," as a multilayered historical novel in which a war story provides a background for comments on aspects of early twentieth-century Portuguese society, such as male bonding, religion, sexual mores, and social stratification. (Contains 11 notes.)
Descriptors: War, Social Stratification, Foreign Countries, Novels
On the Semantics of "Estar" + Participle Sentences in Portuguese
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Azevedo, Milton M. – Linguistics, 1974
Sentences containing "estar" + participle are analyzed in order to highlight their semantic characteristics. (RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
Vernacular Features in Educated Speech in Brazilian Portuguese.
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Azevedo, Milton M. – Hispania, 1989
Reviews some features of the vernacular variety of Brazilian Portuguese that occur in the colloquial speech of educated persons, focusing on pronominal complements, reflexives, verb forms, verb tenses, and noun/modifier agreement. (CB)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Educational Attainment, Language Patterns, Oral Language
Identifying Spanish Interference in the Speech of Learners of Portuguese
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Azevedo, Milton M. – Modern Language Journal, 1978
Spanish-speaking learners of Portuguese often transfer features of Spanish language to Portuguese. Learner errors, including those caused by Spanish interference, are analyzed by contrasting Portuguese and Spanish grammar. (SW)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Grammar, Interference (Language)