Passive Sentences in English and Portuguese
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A01=Milton M. Azevedo
Author_Milton M. Azevedo
Brazilian Portuguese
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contrastive linguistics
English
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L2
L2 learning
L2 teaching
language acquisition
language teaching
lusophone
lusophone linguistics
passivization
Portuguese
Portuguese grammar
Portuguese language
Portuguese linguistics
Portuguese syntax
Prague School
romance linguistics
second language acquisition
second language teaching
syntactic subject
syntax
theme and rheme
theoretical linguistics
Product details
- ISBN 9780878400782
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1980
- Publisher: Georgetown University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This study analyzes passive sentences in English and Portuguese which result from a post-semantic transformation applied when a nound, which does not play the semantic role of actor, is chosen as syntactic subject. Choice between a passive and its non-passive or active counterpart reflects differences in the distribution of information in the sentence as regards the relative importance of the latter's constituents for communication. Such distribution is analyzed in terms of Praque school theory, especially that involving the notions of communicative dynamism and the distribution of theme and rheme. The book concludes with a contrastive analysis of English and Portuguese passive sentence patterns which serves as the basis for observations on the teaching of Portuguese passives to native speakers of English.
