The morpho-syntactic configuration auxiliary (have or be) + past participle known as the have-perfect functions a tense-aspect category in many Western European languages. Synchronic variation within Romance nicely illustrates developmental pattern described aoristic drift, whereby perfect develops over time into perfective with full-fledged meanings. A parallel corpus study of L’Étranger by Al...

O artigo aborda o romance Mano de obra (2002), Diamlea Eltit, com intuito analisar jeito em que texto olha para fim do seculo XIX e principio XX, percorrendo a decada 70. Focaliza nos momentos marcadamente utopicos Chile, desarquivando materiais trazem ao presente potencia uma lingua arcaica, aquela falada pelos “outros” da nacao se propoe como comum no romance.

1. GOAL: This paper puts forward a unitary account for a series of object agreement asymmetries in Romance by parametrizing the vP field. Adopting a microparametric perspective (Belletti & Rizzi 1996, Biberauer 2008, Fukui 1986, Kayne 2000, 2005, Roberts 2010, a.o.), and following numerous precedents on this topic (Koizumi 1993, Johnson 1991, Lasnik 2003, Torrego 1995, 1999, Lopez 2012), we cla...

Seven members of the English, German and Romance Literature departments left this morning for the SMU campus and the second meeting of the South-Central Modern Language Association, which continues through Saturday at Dallas. Approximately! 300 instructors in English, French, j German and Spanish are expected j to represent practically every unij versity and college in the district. McKillop, S...