Constraints on the usage of verbal negation in Brazilian portuguese– Evidence from a spoken corpus

• Lima e Silva, Luis Filipe ^[1] ; Mello, Heliana ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

     Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

     Brasil

     
• Localización: Káñina: Revista de Artes y Letras de la Universidad de Costa Rica, ISSN 0378-0473, ISSN-e 2215-2636, Vol. 40, Nº. Extra 4, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Káñina número extraordinario), págs. 123-134
• Idioma: español
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  • The verbal negation system of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) presents three forms: preverbal, double and postverbal negation, as can be seen in the following examples: *MIC: [91] mas / Michael / eunãofalonessesentido // (ii) *DOM: [101] cêsnũlêemissomaisnão // (iii) *RUT: [220] participanão / minhafilha //. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether there is any kind of prosodic-informational restriction to the distribution and use of the above-mentioned negation forms in BP through the spontaneous speech corpus C-ORAL-BRASIL BRASIL (Raso& Mello, 2012). Through the analysis of the data collected from C-ORAL-BRASIL, we propose that double and postverbal negation can only occur in illocutionary information units (COM, CMM, COB), whereas preverbal negation has free distribution, occurring in both illocutionary and non-illocutionary textual units. This indicates that non-canonical negation forms depend on illocutionary force in order to be fully realized.