Passive Sentences in English and Portuguese

Passive Sentences in English and Portuguese
Author: Milton Mariano Azevedo
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1980
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780878400782

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.

Essential Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Grammar and Composition In English-Portuguese

Essential Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Grammar and Composition In English-Portuguese
Author: Nam H Nguyen
Publisher: Nam H Nguyen
Total Pages: 782
Release: 2018-02-10
Genre:
ISBN:

The Essential Basic, Intermediate and Advanced English Grammar and Composition are a great resource anywhere you go; it is an easy tool that teaches the rules of sentences, noun, verbs, question mark, adjectives, and adverbs; prepositions, propositions, and pronoun pronouncements; punctuation; possessives; and proofreading skills for all communication. Essential Basic, Intermediate and Advanced English Grammar and Composition for explaining everything from basic sentence structure to the finer points of grammar with exercises. This eBook will help you to communicate more effectively and make the right impression every time and it will be very useful for everyone (home, school, students, travel, teachers, interpreting and learning English). Just remember one thing that learning never stops! Read, Read, Read! And Write, Write, Write! A thank you to my wonderful wife Beth (Griffo) Nguyen and my amazing sons Taylor Nguyen and Ashton Nguyen for all their love and support, without their emotional support and help, none of these educational language eBooks and audios would be possible. O Básico Essential, Intermediário e Avançado Inglês-Português Gramática e Composição são um grande recurso em qualquer lugar que você vá; é uma ferramenta fácil que ensina as regras de frases, substantivo, verbos, ponto de interrogação, adjetivos e advérbios; preposições, proposições e pronunciamentos pronome; pontuação; possessives; e habilidades de revisão para todas as comunicações. Básico essencial, Intermediário e Avançado Inglês-Português Gramática e Composição para explicar tudo, desde a estrutura básica sentença para os pontos mais delicados da gramática com exercícios. Este eBook irá ajudá-lo a se comunicar de forma mais eficaz e fazer a impressão direita cada vez e será muito útil para todos (casa, escola, estudantes, curso, professores, interpretar e aprender Inglês). Basta lembrar uma coisa que a aprendizagem nunca pára! Ler, ler, ler! E Escrever, Escrever, Escrever! Um muito obrigado à minha maravilhosa esposa Beth (Griffo) Nguyen e meus filhos incríveis Taylor Nguyen e Ashton Nguyen para todo o seu amor e apoio, sem o seu apoio emocional e ajuda, nenhuma destas eBooks língua de ensino e áudios seria possível.

Manual of Brazilian Portuguese Linguistics

Manual of Brazilian Portuguese Linguistics
Author: Johannes Kabatek
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2022-10-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110405954

This manual is the first comprehensive account of Brazilian Portuguese linguistics written in English, offering not only linguists but also historians and social scientists new insights gained from the intensive research carried out over the last decades on the linguistic reality of this vast territory. In the 20 overview chapters, internationally renowned experts give detailed yet concise information on a wide range of language-internal as well as external synchronic and diachronic topics. Most of this information is the fruit of large-scale language documentation and description projects, such as the project on the linguistic norm of educated speakers (NURC), the project “Grammar of spoken Portuguese”, and the project “Towards a History of Brazilian Portuguese” (PHPB), among others. Further chapters of high contemporary interest and relevance include the study of linguistic policies and psycholinguistics. The manual offers theoretical insights of general interest, not least since many chapters present the linguistic data in the light of a combination of formal, functional, generative and sociolinguistic approaches. This rather unique feature of the volume is achieved by the double authorship of some of the relevant chapters, thus bringing together and synthesizing different perspectives.

A Resource-light Approach to Morpho-syntactic Tagging

A Resource-light Approach to Morpho-syntactic Tagging
Author: Anna Feldman
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2010
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9042027681

While supervised corpus-based methods are highly accurate for different NLP tasks, including morphological tagging, they are difficult to port to other languages because they require resources that are expensive to create. As a result, many languages have no realistic prospect for morpho-syntactic annotation in the foreseeable future. The method presented in this book aims to overcome this problem by significantly limiting the necessary data and instead extrapolating the relevant information from another, related language. The approach has been tested on Catalan, Portuguese, and Russian. Although these languages are only relatively resource-poor, the same method can be in principle applied to any inflected language, as long as there is an annotated corpus of a related language available. Time needed for adjusting the system to a new language constitutes a fraction of the time needed for systems with extensive, manually created resources: days instead of years. This book touches upon a number of topics: typology, morphology, corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics, linguistic annotation, computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Researchers and students who are interested in these scientific areas as well as in cross-lingual studies and applications will greatly benefit from this work. Scholars and practitioners in computer science and linguistics are the prospective readers of this book.

Essential Portuguese Grammar

Essential Portuguese Grammar
Author: Alexander da R. Prista
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2012-05-11
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 048611337X

DIVLogical, developmental presentation includes all the necessary tools for speech and comprehension and features numerous shortcuts and timesavers. Ideal as an introduction, supplement, or refresher. /div

The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book, 2nd Edition

The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book, 2nd Edition
Author: Fernanda Ferreira
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2024-11-12
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1507223153

Discover just how easy it is to learn Brazilian Portuguese with this updated edition of The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book with new online audio so you can quickly access the pronunciation guide and exercises while you’re reading. The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book, 2nd Edition makes Brazilian Portuguese a breeze to learn. Whether you are interested in the area or are adding a valuable second language to your resume, you’ll learn how to: -Understand Portuguese grammar -Improve pronunciation -Ask basic questions in Portuguese -Have basic conversations when traveling, dining out, conduction business, and shopping -And so much more This helpful guide includes links to online audio pronunciation guides, vocabulary lists, and interactive exercises. Packed with dialogue examples, self-tests, and English-to-Portuguese and Portuguese-to-English dictionaries, The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book, 2nd Edition will have you speaking—and understanding—Portuguese in no time.

Portuguese

Portuguese
Author: Milton M. Azevedo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2005-01-13
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521805155

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