Publication details
Sémantické rysy členu v současné portugalštině
| Title in English | Semantic features in the contemporary Portuguese language |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | ČASOPIS PRO MODERNÍ FILOLOGII |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| web | https://casopispromodernifilologii.ff.cuni.cz/en/2019-1-5/ |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23366591.2019.1.5 |
| Keywords | European and Brazilian Portuguese; article use; semantic features; relations between articles; substitution possibilities |
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| Description | The aim of the paper is to analyze semantic features of the definite, indefinite and zero articles in Eu-ropean and Brazilian Portuguese and to attempt to clarify the criteria governing their use. Their ap-plication is determined by the semantic nature and syntactic function of the noun, but also by types of context in which the article can acquire deictic or anticipatory meaning. However, the article is also an operator of the semantic processes of determination and has several functions; it narrows the semantic breadth of the noun, restricting it to a specific meaning or, for example, to the function of countability, but, conversely, also extending it, raising its semantic meaning to a higher degree of abstraction and generality. Thus, in accordance with these functions, the article can assume refer-ential, attributive, specific, non-specific, countable, uncountable or material meaning, and, last but not least, a generic one. The paper aims to illustrate situations where this is occurring and to outline possibilities for substitution. In respect of the latter, it aims to demonstrate that both dichotomous and synonymous relationships may exist between individual articles. |
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