Portuguese Grammar

Objectives

a) To identify different grammar modules and different perspectives of grammatical analysis;
b) To describe the main characteristics of the sounds, words, sentences, utterances and texts in the Portuguese language;
c) To explain the functioning of Portuguese, through the analysis of observable data;
d) To Identify and describe distinctive characteristics of the Portuguese grammar.

General characterization

Code

711131067

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Raquel Fonseca Amaro, Maria do Céu Sernache Caetano Mocho, Carolina Gloria Silva, Joana Maria Rodrigues Batalha Marchão, Joana Alexandra Vaz Teixeira

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 168

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

CUNHA, Celso & Luís Filipe Lindley CINTRA. Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo. Lisboa: Ed. J. Sá da Costa, [1984] 2014 ( 21ª edição).


MATEUS, Maria Helena Mira et al. Gramática da Língua Portuguesa. Lisboa: Caminho, 2003. 

RAPOSO, Eduardo et al. (orgs). Gramática do Português. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2013.

Teaching method

This curricular unit is characterized by being a theoretical-practical one. Whenever possible, the teaching will be student-centered.
Based on an initial schedule, we foresee a balanced combination of theoretical and practical classes. At the beginning of the semester this information will be made available to students.

Evaluation method

Available soon

Subject matter

1. Grammar and grammars: knowledge of grammar and grammatical knowledge;
2. The main characteristics of the Portuguese Grammar:
2.1 the study of the sounds: articulatory phonetics classification; the structure of syllables; phonological aspects of Portuguese;
2.2 the study of words: lexical creativity and word formation; inflection, derivation and compounding in Portuguese;
2.3 the study of sentences: word classes, constituents and syntactic functions; clause typology and syntactic Portuguese constructions;

2.4 the sudy of meaning: nominal reference; tense, aspect and modality in Portuguese;
2.5 verbal interaction markers, discourse markers and textual cohesion and coherence;
3. Topics of Portuguese grammar – case studies.