Passive as adjective predicative construction in portuguese: morphological evidence and implementation in LFG/XLE

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https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v13i2.1300

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Passive Voice, Lexical-Functional Grammar, Computational Linguistics, Syntactic Parsing. Evaluative Suffixes

Abstract

Traditional grammars of Portuguese handle the passive construction as a voice phenomenon which is part of the verbal conjugation. In this paper, we discuss the claim by Perini (2010) that there is no passive voice in Portuguese. We compare this approach to the one of POLFIE. This is a computational grammar of Polish which was developed within the framework of LFG and implemented in XLE. In this grammar, the passive construction is an adjective predicative construction. We present additional morphological evidence on the adjectival status of the passive participle in Portuguese and implement this analysis in BrGram, a computational grammar of Brazilian Portuguese that is analogous to POLFIE. 
KEYWORDS: Passive Voice. Lexical-Functional Grammar. Computational Linguistics. Syntactic Parsing. Evaluative Suffixes.

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Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar, Federal University of Ceará (UFC/Brazil)

Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar é Professor Associado da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), vinculado ao Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras e ao Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística (PPGL). Atua, também, como pesquisador colaborador do Grupo de Redes de Computadores, Engenharia de Software e Sistemas (GREat) do Departamento de Computação da UFC. Concluiu doutorado e pós doutorado em Linguística pela Universidade de Constança na Alemanha. Seus principais focos de pesquisa são gramática gerativa, linguística computacional e linguística de corpus.

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Published

2015-12-30

How to Cite

ALENCAR, L. F. de. Passive as adjective predicative construction in portuguese: morphological evidence and implementation in LFG/XLE. Language Studies, [S. l.], v. 13, n. 2, p. 35-57, 2015. DOI: 10.22481/el.v13i2.1300. Disponível em: https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/estudosdalinguagem/article/view/1300. Acesso em: 24 aug. 2024.