Passive Sentences in English and Portuguese

Released on by Milton Mariano Azevedo
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  • Passive Sentences in English and Portuguese Book Detail

  • Author : Milton Mariano Azevedo
  • Release Date : 1980
  • Publisher : Georgetown University Press
  • Genre : Computers
  • Pages : 140
  • ISBN 13 : 9780878400782
  • File Size : 91,91 MB
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Passive Sentences in English and Portuguese by Milton Mariano Azevedo PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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