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Kinder, John J. – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2004
The use of BE as an auxiliary verb with intransitive verbs has declined in all the Romance languages over the past five centuries. Today, Spanish and Portuguese use only HAVE, in Catalan and Romanian BE occurs in marginal contexts, and in French, BE is used with approximately 40 verbs. Italian is a notable exception, since BE is still used as the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Monolingualism, Dictionaries
Hoge, Henry W. – 1965
The need to expand Luso-Brazilian linguistic and cultural competency through instruction at the university level is described in this article. Some 20 specialists of Portuguese studies identify major problems facing the educational community. A second section presents a selective list of traditional and linguistically-oriented reference and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cultural Education, Curriculum Development, Dictionaries