Lexical function is a concept which formalizes semantic and syntactic relations between lexical units. Relations between words are a vital part of any natural language system. Meaning of an individual word largely depends ...

This paper describes the prepositions sob and sobre in the Functional Discourse Grammar framework (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008) aiming at checking their lexical or grammatical status on the basis of classification criteria ...

Children with developmental dyslexia (hereafter DD) and developmental language disorder (hereafter DLD) have deficient lexical skills compared to their typically developing (TD) peers. Verbal fluency tasks are often used ...

"The overall purpose of this study is to analyze those features of lexical cohesion contained in English as a foreign language (EFL) in medical written texts in order to provide a better understanding of how cohesion ...

The present dissertation looks on the use of the portuguese lexical form ´aqui´ in chats using the Microsoft-licensed software - MSN. It aims to identify the uses in which such form can be regarded as a locative adverb, ...

Lexical metaphors are still little studied in the light of the theoretical and methodological approach of Systemic-Functional Linguistics, especially regarding their evaluative potential, revealed by investigation from ...

This study analyzes the phraseological units found in the language of popular print media, in order to show the lexical productivity in journalistic discourse, more specifically, of phraseological components. It was examined ...