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Revue de linguistique romane, Jan 1, 2010
Como es bien sabido, hasta mediados del siglo XIV, la lengua gallega formó una unidad lingüística... more Como es bien sabido, hasta mediados del siglo XIV, la lengua gallega formó una unidad lingüística con el portugués. Más tarde, el gallego cae en la órbita política y lingüística española y queda reducido durante varios siglos al registro exclusivamente hablado, ante todo por la crucial influencia del castellano como lengua de cultura y de mayor prestigio. De ello resulta una separación cada vez mayor entre el portugués y el gallego: sobre todo a partir del siglo XVI, las corrientes innovadoras que afectan al portugués ya no pasan la frontera del Miño y el destino de las dos lenguas se separa definitivamente. Mientras que el portugués se convierte en una lengua nacional e incluso internacional, el gallego se va acercando al castellano (cf. Lorenzo 1975, 155).
Es consabido que la unidad lingüística gallega-portuguesa de los tiempos medievales empezó a desh... more Es consabido que la unidad lingüística gallega-portuguesa de los tiempos medievales empezó a deshacerse a partir de mediados del siglo XIX y que el gallego cayó cada vez más bajo la influencia política y lingüística del español. Sin embargo, aún hoy se verifica la procedencia común del gallego y del portugués por la presencia de determinadas propiedades lingüísticas compartidas que no se atestiguan en castellano. Entre estas semejanzas destacamos la posibilidad de flexionar el infinitivo, recurso lingüístico presente desde las primeras manifestaciones escritas en gallego-portugués (cf. Gondar 1978: 7).
El presente capítulo forma una herramienta que permite al estudioso (i) determinar los corpus que... more El presente capítulo forma una herramienta que permite al estudioso (i) determinar los corpus que le son útiles para realizar una investigación de corpus sobre cualquier tema relacionado con el PE contemporáneo, (ii) saber dónde encontrarlos, (iii) encontrar estudios que describen más detenidamente las aplicaciones de estos corpus. Se distingue entre, por un lado, los corpus consultables a través de un motor de búsqueda en internet y, por otro, los corpus orales disponibles en su totalidad. Seguidamente, el capítulo ilustra la variación textual y dialectal del PE actual mediante unas muestras representativas, con el fin de ofrecer una idea global de la variación en el PE contemporáneo. corpus, portugués europeo contemporáneo, géneros textuales, dialectos
Manuel des anthologies, corpus et textes romans
El presente capítulo trata de proporcionar una herramienta que permita al estudioso (i) determina... more El presente capítulo trata de proporcionar una herramienta que permita al estudioso (i) determinar fácil y rápidamente los corpus disponibles para realizar una investigación de corpus sobre cualquier tema del español europeo contemporáneo, (ii) saber dónde encontrarlos, (iii) encontrar estudios que describan los detalles de estos corpus (sección 1). La lista no es exhaustiva: incluimos solamente los proyectos finalizados o en gran medida disponibles al público, de dimensiones razonablemente grandes o con importancia particular, cuyos textos son de libre y fácil acceso. La segunda parte del capítulo ilustra la variación tipológica de los textos del español europeo a través de unas muestras representativas. Los límites del artículo no permiten dar una lista exhaustiva de distintos géneros y variedades. Antes bien, a través de nuestra selección de textos, damos una visión de conjunto de las variedades textuales que se encuentran en el español actual y de sus características (sección 2).
This study investigates the intricate polysemy of the Spanish perception verb 'sentir' (‘feel’) w... more This study investigates the intricate polysemy of the Spanish perception verb 'sentir' (‘feel’) which, analogous to the more-studied visual perception verbs 'ver' (‘see’) and 'mirar' (‘look’), also displays an ample gamut of semantic uses in various syntactic environments. The investigation is based on a corpus-based behavioral profile (BP) analysis. Besides its methodological merits as a quantitative, systematic and verifiable approach to the study of meaning and to polysemy in particular, the BP analysis offers qualitative usage-based evidence for cognitive linguistic theorizing. With regard to the polysemy of 'sentir', the following questions were addressed: (1) What is the prototype of each cluster of senses? (2) How are the different senses structured: how many senses should be distinguished – i.e. which senses cluster together and which senses should be kept separately? (3) Which senses are more related to each other and which are highly distinguishable? (4) What morphosyntactic variables make them more or less distinguishable? The results show that two significant meaning clusters can be distinguished, which coincide with the division between the middle voice uses ('sentirse') and the other uses ('sentir'). Within these clusters, a number of meaningful subclusters emerge, which seem to coincide largely with the more general semantic categories of physical, cognitive and emotional perception.
Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 131(2). pp.355-382., 2015
Most studies on locative verbs focus on (a) the internal organization of this verbal category and... more Most studies on locative verbs focus on (a) the internal organization of this verbal category and its position within various verb classifications, (b) the syntactic analysis of their arguments, and more particularly the status of the locative complement. The aim of the present paper is to compare the syntax and semantics of the frequently used locative verbs poner and meter in Spanish with their Portuguese cognate counterparts pôr and meter. We examine to what extent the use of these near-synonyms goes beyond the basic locative meaning and extends towards other, more grammaticalized, domains. More particularly, on the basis of translation corpus data and comparable corpus data, we empirically analyze the semantic features of their transfer use, their causative/inchoative uses and their (pseudo)-copulative uses, and we shed light on their frequencies. It will be shown that the Spanish verbs present a higher degree of grammaticalization compared to their Portuguese counterparts, and that intralinguistically, poner and pôr are far more grammaticalized than their near-synonyms meter/meter.
Clara Vanderschueren/Ludovic De Cuypere (to appear). The Inflected/Non-inflected Infinitive Alternation in Portuguese Adverbial Clauses. A Corpus Analysis*
"This paper investigates the alternation between the Portuguese inflected and uninflected infinit... more "This paper investigates the alternation between the Portuguese inflected and uninflected infinitive in adverbial contexts on the basis of extensive corpus analyses and from a cognitivefunctional
perspective. We propose a multifactorial analysis of several variables that could influence the choice between both infinitives. These variables are inscribed within three underlying principles proposed in former literature: higher Autonomy of the infinitival clause, lower infinitival Subject Accessibility and stronger Verbality of the infinitive would lead to an increased used of the inflected form. Both a classification tree and a logistic regression analysis offer converging evidence for the validity of Autonomy and Subject Accessibility: infinitival clauses are more prone to the use of an inflected infinitive when they show more semantic-syntactic autonomy and when their subject is less accessible. As for the Verbality principle, we found a difference between morphosyntactic and semantic verbality: infinitives that have explicit morphosyntactic marks of their verbal status are indeed more easily inflected. However, contrary to expectations, infinitives that are semantically less prototypical verbs (states and less dynamic verbs), are more easily inflected. We interpret these findings in terms of the "Differential Infinitive Marking" (analogous to Differential Object/Subject Marking) and clausality: the inflected infinitive marks the clausal nature of the infinitive construction. "
Vanderschueren, Clara/Diependaele, Kevin (2013), 'The Portuguese Inflected Infinitive. An Empirical Approach',Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 9:1, 161-186.
This paper deals with the seemingly free competition between inflected and uninflected infinitive... more This paper deals with the seemingly free competition between inflected and uninflected infinitives in Portuguese, a much-debated issue in Portuguese linguistics, which, however, has not been seriously empirically studied before. We specifically focus on cognitive hypothesis according to which the inflected infinitive is used in cases in which the infinitival subject risks to be less cognitively accessible due to contextual reasons. We investigate this theory by analyzing both corpus and experimental (self-paced reading) data, making use of advanced linear modeling. We show that both types of analysis lead to complementary results: the inflected form primarily eases the processing of sentences with increased complexity. On the basis of these results, we argue that Vesterinen's accessibility account is but part of the solution for the inflected/non-inflected problem.
Vanderschueren Clara (2012) '¿Ao cair da noite o al caer el día? Análisis contrastivo de las construcciones infinitivas con al/ao en español y portugués', Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie 128:2, 259-285., Jan 1, 2012
Jansegers Marlies/Vanderschueren Clara (2010), 'El infinitivo flexionado gallego: ¿entre portugués y castellano?' , Revue de Linguistique Romane 74: 295-296, 415-441., 2010
Como es bien sabido, hasta mediados del siglo XIV, la lengua gallega formó una unidad lingüística... more Como es bien sabido, hasta mediados del siglo XIV, la lengua gallega formó una unidad lingüística con el portugués. Más tarde, el gallego cae en la órbita política y lingüística española y queda reducido durante varios siglos al registro exclusivamente hablado, ante todo por la crucial influencia del castellano como lengua de cultura y de mayor prestigio. De ello resulta una separación cada vez mayor entre el portugués y el gallego: sobre todo a partir del siglo XVI, las corrientes innovadoras que afectan al portugués ya no pasan la frontera del Miño y el destino de las dos lenguas se separa definitivamente. Mientras que el portugués se convierte en una lengua nacional e incluso internacional, el gallego se va acercando al castellano (cf. Lorenzo 1975, 155).
Enghels Renata/Vanderschueren Clara (2009), 'La construcción infinitiva tras verbos de percepción visual y auditiva. Un análisis comparativo entre el portugués y el español', Revue Romane 44:1, 25-46., 2009
In Spanish and Portuguese the direct perception of an event is expressed by infinitival construct... more In Spanish and Portuguese the direct perception of an event is expressed by infinitival constructions such as Vi a los niños correr and Vi os meninos correr(em) ("I saw the children run"). This article focuses on the factors that determine the syntactic markings of the perceived participant NP 2 as the direct object of the perception verb or the subject of the subordinated infinitival complement. Based on a large corpus it is shown that although both languages prefer different basic word orders and case markings, a common cognitivesemantic parameter explains some striking analogies, namely the perception modality of the main verb. Moreover, the Portuguese infinitive optionally agrees with NP 2 , therefore syntactically becoming more subject-like. However, statistical data reveal beyond all expectations that inflection is not determined by the above-mentioned cognitive factor but by the degree of syntactic autonomy of the subordinated complement.
Vanderschueren Clara (2010), 'The use of translations in linguistic argumentation A case study on Spanish and Portuguese subordinate clauses introduced by para', Languages in Contrast 10:1, 76-101., 2010
Despite obvious interference risks, it has been argued in former studies that translations consti... more Despite obvious interference risks, it has been argued in former studies that translations constitute a useful tool for investigating lexical phenomena. By means of a corpus study on prepositional clauses introduced by para in Spanish and Portuguese, the present paper shows that translations can also be a valuable methodological tool for the study of grammatical phenomena in a given language. The results from both a translation and a comparable Portuguese/Spanish and Spanish/Portuguese corpus are shown to converge and reveal that the inflection of the Portuguese infinitive is used to strengthen thematic continuity, whereas an overt subject appears in cases of inaccessibility within the sentence margins. Like this, the present study deepens former accounts on the nature of the Portuguese inflected infinitive and the Spanish and Portuguese para-clauses in general by comparing translations in both languages.
Phrasis, Jan 1, 2010
... Publisher, Academia Press. Place of Publication, Ghent. Publication/Series, Phrasis. Editor, ... more ... Publisher, Academia Press. Place of Publication, Ghent. Publication/Series, Phrasis. Editor, Renata Enghels [801001598941] - Ghent University Renata.Enghels@UGent.be; ClaraVanderschueren [802000163926] - Ghent University Clara.Vanderschueren@UGent.be. ...
Ga onmiddellijk naar paginanavigatie. Disruption of library services 07/11-30/11 All library serv... more Ga onmiddellijk naar paginanavigatie. Disruption of library services 07/11-30/11 All library services will move to a new datacenter during the month of November. During this move many library services will be disturbed. Read more information on our library homepage. ...
Actes du XXVe Congrès …, Jan 1, 2010
La función sintáctica del participante percibido: un análisis contrastivo español-portugués.
Comparatio delectat: Akten der VI. …, Jan 1, 2011
... Record Details. Record ID, 782477. Record Type, conference. Author, Renata Enghels [801001598... more ... Record Details. Record ID, 782477. Record Type, conference. Author, Renata Enghels [801001598941] - Ghent University Renata.Enghels@UGent.be; Clara Vanderschueren [802000163926] - Ghent University Clara.Vanderschueren@UGent.be. ...
Es consabido que la unidad lingüística gallega-portuguesa de los tiempos medievales empezó a desh... more Es consabido que la unidad lingüística gallega-portuguesa de los tiempos medievales empezó a deshacerse a partir de mediados del siglo XIX y que el gallego cayó cada vez más bajo la influencia política y lingüística del español. Sin embargo, aún hoy se verifica la procedencia común del gallego y del portugués por la presencia de determinadas propiedades lingüísticas compartidas que no se atestiguan en castellano. Entre estas semejanzas destacamos la posibilidad de flexionar el infinitivo, recurso lingüístico presente desde las primeras manifestaciones escritas en gallego-portugués (cf. Gondar 1978: 7).
Ma Dissertation by Clara Vanderschueren
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Vantagens, inconvenientes e aplicação às orações iniciadas com para [4] casos como a tendência a ... more Vantagens, inconvenientes e aplicação às orações iniciadas com para [4] casos como a tendência a aumentar a coerência, a explicitar, o enobrecimento do estilo, a perda de variação lexical e a destrução do ritmo (cf. Chesterman 2004: 215-216). Logo, vários cépticos concentram-se nos problemas de linguagem causados nas traduções pela influência do texto original e nas divergências para com outros textos na LA. Abaitua (2000:7) nota, por exemplo, que a variação lexical tende a reduzir-se nos textos traduzidos e que nos mesmos textos se descobre uma acumulação de palavras funcionais 2 . Li & Xu (2003) assinalam que a tradução pode provocar efeitos enfáticos não intendidos pelo autor do texto original. Estas interferências, explica Yebra (2006: 24), costumam ser calcos desnecessários ou incorrectos, contrários à norma da LA e resultando no fenómeno que se chama pejorativamente galicismos, anglicismos etc. Gellerstam (1996) fala de translationese 3 para designar tais efeitos pouco apropriados de interferência da LF no texto-alvo. Por fim, Muñiz Cachón (2001) constata que as interferências do original na tradução resultam particularmente recorrentes quando se apresentam correspondências nos sistemas gramaticais da LF e da LA, como é exactamente o caso do português e do espanhol.
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perspective. We propose a multifactorial analysis of several variables that could influence the choice between both infinitives. These variables are inscribed within three underlying principles proposed in former literature: higher Autonomy of the infinitival clause, lower infinitival Subject Accessibility and stronger Verbality of the infinitive would lead to an increased used of the inflected form. Both a classification tree and a logistic regression analysis offer converging evidence for the validity of Autonomy and Subject Accessibility: infinitival clauses are more prone to the use of an inflected infinitive when they show more semantic-syntactic autonomy and when their subject is less accessible. As for the Verbality principle, we found a difference between morphosyntactic and semantic verbality: infinitives that have explicit morphosyntactic marks of their verbal status are indeed more easily inflected. However, contrary to expectations, infinitives that are semantically less prototypical verbs (states and less dynamic verbs), are more easily inflected. We interpret these findings in terms of the "Differential Infinitive Marking" (analogous to Differential Object/Subject Marking) and clausality: the inflected infinitive marks the clausal nature of the infinitive construction. "
Ma Dissertation by Clara Vanderschueren
perspective. We propose a multifactorial analysis of several variables that could influence the choice between both infinitives. These variables are inscribed within three underlying principles proposed in former literature: higher Autonomy of the infinitival clause, lower infinitival Subject Accessibility and stronger Verbality of the infinitive would lead to an increased used of the inflected form. Both a classification tree and a logistic regression analysis offer converging evidence for the validity of Autonomy and Subject Accessibility: infinitival clauses are more prone to the use of an inflected infinitive when they show more semantic-syntactic autonomy and when their subject is less accessible. As for the Verbality principle, we found a difference between morphosyntactic and semantic verbality: infinitives that have explicit morphosyntactic marks of their verbal status are indeed more easily inflected. However, contrary to expectations, infinitives that are semantically less prototypical verbs (states and less dynamic verbs), are more easily inflected. We interpret these findings in terms of the "Differential Infinitive Marking" (analogous to Differential Object/Subject Marking) and clausality: the inflected infinitive marks the clausal nature of the infinitive construction. "