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Gradoville, Michael Stephen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examines the frequency effect of two-word collocations involving "para" "to," "for" (e.g. "fui para," "para que") on the reduction of "para" to "pa" (in Spanish) and "pra" (in Portuguese). Collocation frequency effects demonstrate that language speakers…
Descriptors: Spanish, Portuguese, Phrase Structure, Memory
Revista de Documentacao de Estudos em Linguistica Teorica e Aplicada, 2000
This issue contains the following articles: "Resumption and Last Resort" (Joseph Aoun); "Existentials, A-Chains, and Reconstruction" (Norbert Hornstein); "How Long Was the Nineteenth Century" (David Lightfoot); "Formal Features and Parameter Setting: A View From Portuguese Past Participles and Romance Future…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, French