Anthony J Naro
Biographic Data
| ID | 732007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony J Naro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony J |
| FAMILY NAME | Naro |
| SIGNATURE | NARO A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Change without change
Brazilian Portuguese possesses two forms used as 1st person plural pronouns: nós and a gente , both meaning ‘we’. The form nós has always been pronominal, whereas a gente is derived diachronically from the noun phrase a gente ‘the people’. In accord with this historical evolution, the standard language prefers the use of the 1st plural verb desinence - mos with nós , as in nós falamos ‘we speak’ or ‘we spoke’. The 3rd person desinence 0 is reserv…
Arguing about Arguin
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The serial effect on internal and external variables
Examination of three variable concord phenomena in spoken Portuguese of Rio de Janeiro (noun phrase, subject/predicate adjective, subject/verb) demonstrates that the most consistent and strongest variable constraint on the use of concord is the discourse level serial (or parallel processing) effect, that is, a preference for similar forms to co-occur in sections of discourse, even if this results in redundancy or lack of economy. Given the streng…
Marking in discourse: “Birds of a feather”
Subject/verb agreement and subject/predicate adjective agreement in spoken Brazilian Portuguese are subject to a parallel processing effect, such that marking leads to further marking and lack of marking leads to further lack of marking. For example, semantically plural verb tokens preceded by marked plural subjects in the same clause or other marked verb tokens with the same subject in the preceding discourse are more likely to be explicitly mar…
A Reply to "Pidgins Origins Reconsidered" by Morris Goodman
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Historical Linguistics
Statistik fur Linguisten
The Social and Structural Dimensions of a Syntactic Change
This paper proposes a model of syntactic change based on a quantitative study of the rule of subject/verb agreement in spoken Brazilian Portuguese. Among speakers of the lower socio-economic levels, this rule is currently undergoing a process of elimination from the grammar. The model postulates that syntactic change starts at a point where surface differentiation between the old and new systems is zero (or nearly so); later it spreads throughout…
Principles and Methods for Historical Linguistics
Intended for use in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, this text presents a wide survey of methodological procedures and theoretical positions
Linguistic Variation: Models and Methods
Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
Miscelanea luso-africana
Readings in Portuguese Linguistics. Jürgen Schmidt-Radefeldt
A Study on the Origins of Pidginization
The history of pidgin Portuguese is divided into two temporally and geographically distinct phases: first, the period of formation in Europe, beginning around the 1440's, and second, the period of transfer and establishment in West Africa of the resultant ‘acquired code’, beginning around 1500. In the first period, pidginization did not occur as a result of the initial contacts between ocean traders and Africans; rather, native speakers of West A…
The Genesis of the Reflexive Impersonal in Portuguese: A Study in Syntactic Change as a Surface Phenomenon
Syntactic change is viewed as a process that is critically dependent on the surface properties of language and essentially independent of grammatical derivations. In this framework, the genesis of the reflexive impersonal construction in Portuguese is shown to have no formal connection—not even a merely descriptive one—with the transformations of Agentization and Object Fronting that were involved in the derivation of its ancestor, the reflexive …
The Portuguese Language
Esquisse d'une dialectologie portugaise, 2 a
Resolution of Vocalic Hiatus in Portuguese: Diachronic Evidence for Binary Features
In the history of Portuguese, unstressed mid vowels in hiatus become high, while certain other hiatus groups evidence a complex process of assimilation. A binary system for representation of tongue height in vowels permits the formulation of explanatorily correct rules to describe these diachronic phenomena, while an n -ary system fails on several accounts
The History of e and o in Portuguese: A Study in Linguistic Drift
Pre-16th century Portuguese had a slight raising of post-stress /e o/ to [ẹ ọ] (but not to [i u]) in pre-pause position, and a full raising of /e/ to [i] under nasalization in initial position. The first of these developments is based on a decrease in average energy of articulation after the final stress of a breath group, while the second depends on several layers of confusion of prefixes. Later changes found in several geographically separate d…
The Social and Structural Dimensions of a Syntactic Change
This paper proposes a model of syntactic change based on a quantitative study of the rule of subject/verb agreement in spoken Brazilian Portuguese. Among speakers of the lower socio-economic levels, this rule is currently undergoing a process of elimination from the grammar. The model postulates that syntactic change starts at a point where surface differentiation between the old and new systems is zero (or nearly so); later it spreads throughout…
Marking in discourse: “Birds of a feather”
Subject/verb agreement and subject/predicate adjective agreement in spoken Brazilian Portuguese are subject to a parallel processing effect, such that marking leads to further marking and lack of marking leads to further lack of marking. For example, semantically plural verb tokens preceded by marked plural subjects in the same clause or other marked verb tokens with the same subject in the preceding discourse are more likely to be explicitly mar…
A Study on the Origins of Pidginization
The history of pidgin Portuguese is divided into two temporally and geographically distinct phases: first, the period of formation in Europe, beginning around the 1440's, and second, the period of transfer and establishment in West Africa of the resultant ‘acquired code’, beginning around 1500. In the first period, pidginization did not occur as a result of the initial contacts between ocean traders and Africans; rather, native speakers of West A…
The serial effect on internal and external variables
Examination of three variable concord phenomena in spoken Portuguese of Rio de Janeiro (noun phrase, subject/predicate adjective, subject/verb) demonstrates that the most consistent and strongest variable constraint on the use of concord is the discourse level serial (or parallel processing) effect, that is, a preference for similar forms to co-occur in sections of discourse, even if this results in redundancy or lack of economy. Given the streng…
Change without change
Brazilian Portuguese possesses two forms used as 1st person plural pronouns: nós and a gente , both meaning ‘we’. The form nós has always been pronominal, whereas a gente is derived diachronically from the noun phrase a gente ‘the people’. In accord with this historical evolution, the standard language prefers the use of the 1st plural verb desinence - mos with nós , as in nós falamos ‘we speak’ or ‘we spoke’. The 3rd person desinence 0 is reserv…
Esquisse d'une dialectologie portugaise, 2 a
The Genesis of the Reflexive Impersonal in Portuguese: A Study in Syntactic Change as a Surface Phenomenon
Syntactic change is viewed as a process that is critically dependent on the surface properties of language and essentially independent of grammatical derivations. In this framework, the genesis of the reflexive impersonal construction in Portuguese is shown to have no formal connection—not even a merely descriptive one—with the transformations of Agentization and Object Fronting that were involved in the derivation of its ancestor, the reflexive …
Resolution of Vocalic Hiatus in Portuguese: Diachronic Evidence for Binary Features
In the history of Portuguese, unstressed mid vowels in hiatus become high, while certain other hiatus groups evidence a complex process of assimilation. A binary system for representation of tongue height in vowels permits the formulation of explanatorily correct rules to describe these diachronic phenomena, while an n -ary system fails on several accounts
Linguistic Variation: Models and Methods
The History of e and o in Portuguese: A Study in Linguistic Drift
Pre-16th century Portuguese had a slight raising of post-stress /e o/ to [ẹ ọ] (but not to [i u]) in pre-pause position, and a full raising of /e/ to [i] under nasalization in initial position. The first of these developments is based on a decrease in average energy of articulation after the final stress of a breath group, while the second depends on several layers of confusion of prefixes. Later changes found in several geographically separate d…
Resolution of Vocalic Hiatus in Portuguese: Diachronic Evidence for Binary Features
In the history of Portuguese, unstressed mid vowels in hiatus become high, while certain other hiatus groups evidence a complex process of assimilation. A binary system for representation of tongue height in vowels permits the formulation of explanatorily correct rules to describe these diachronic phenomena, while an n -ary system fails on several accounts
The History of e and o in Portuguese: A Study in Linguistic Drift
Pre-16th century Portuguese had a slight raising of post-stress /e o/ to [ẹ ọ] (but not to [i u]) in pre-pause position, and a full raising of /e/ to [i] under nasalization in initial position. The first of these developments is based on a decrease in average energy of articulation after the final stress of a breath group, while the second depends on several layers of confusion of prefixes. Later changes found in several geographically separate d…
The Portuguese Language
Esquisse d'une dialectologie portugaise, 2 a
The Genesis of the Reflexive Impersonal in Portuguese: A Study in Syntactic Change as a Surface Phenomenon
Syntactic change is viewed as a process that is critically dependent on the surface properties of language and essentially independent of grammatical derivations. In this framework, the genesis of the reflexive impersonal construction in Portuguese is shown to have no formal connection—not even a merely descriptive one—with the transformations of Agentization and Object Fronting that were involved in the derivation of its ancestor, the reflexive …
Miscelanea luso-africana
Readings in Portuguese Linguistics. Jürgen Schmidt-Radefeldt
A Study on the Origins of Pidginization
The history of pidgin Portuguese is divided into two temporally and geographically distinct phases: first, the period of formation in Europe, beginning around the 1440's, and second, the period of transfer and establishment in West Africa of the resultant ‘acquired code’, beginning around 1500. In the first period, pidginization did not occur as a result of the initial contacts between ocean traders and Africans; rather, native speakers of West A…
Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
Principles and Methods for Historical Linguistics
Intended for use in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, this text presents a wide survey of methodological procedures and theoretical positions
Linguistic Variation: Models and Methods
The Social and Structural Dimensions of a Syntactic Change
This paper proposes a model of syntactic change based on a quantitative study of the rule of subject/verb agreement in spoken Brazilian Portuguese. Among speakers of the lower socio-economic levels, this rule is currently undergoing a process of elimination from the grammar. The model postulates that syntactic change starts at a point where surface differentiation between the old and new systems is zero (or nearly so); later it spreads throughout…
Statistik fur Linguisten
Historical Linguistics
A Reply to "Pidgins Origins Reconsidered" by Morris Goodman
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Marking in discourse: “Birds of a feather”
Subject/verb agreement and subject/predicate adjective agreement in spoken Brazilian Portuguese are subject to a parallel processing effect, such that marking leads to further marking and lack of marking leads to further lack of marking. For example, semantically plural verb tokens preceded by marked plural subjects in the same clause or other marked verb tokens with the same subject in the preceding discourse are more likely to be explicitly mar…
The serial effect on internal and external variables
Examination of three variable concord phenomena in spoken Portuguese of Rio de Janeiro (noun phrase, subject/predicate adjective, subject/verb) demonstrates that the most consistent and strongest variable constraint on the use of concord is the discourse level serial (or parallel processing) effect, that is, a preference for similar forms to co-occur in sections of discourse, even if this results in redundancy or lack of economy. Given the streng…
Arguing about Arguin
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Change without change
Brazilian Portuguese possesses two forms used as 1st person plural pronouns: nós and a gente , both meaning ‘we’. The form nós has always been pronominal, whereas a gente is derived diachronically from the noun phrase a gente ‘the people’. In accord with this historical evolution, the standard language prefers the use of the 1st plural verb desinence - mos with nós , as in nós falamos ‘we speak’ or ‘we spoke’. The 3rd person desinence 0 is reserv…
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