This paper examines the semantic and morphosyntactic complementation patterns of perception verbs in Brazilian Portuguese. Using the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar, five semantic complement types are identified. ...

The present action-research case study addressed the issue of phrasal verb learning in an EFL context. It aimed to evaluate the impact of a Cognitive Linguistics (CL) teaching methodology on students' retention of novel ...

The main goal of this paper is to verify the validity of the predictions derived from the stratified approach of the qualificational categories proposed by the Functional Discourse Grammar for the analysis of the lexical ...

Recent studies suggest that action-verb processing is particularly affected in early stage Parkinson´s disease (PD), highlighting the potential role of subcortical areas in language processing and in the semantic integration ...

This is a descriptive work, and presupposes that before building thories, we should accumulate and systematize data with the aim of studying the relation between form and semantics. Starting from that, I attempt to present ...

A evidencialidade corresponde à explicitação da fonte da informação contida em um enunciado. Em muitas línguas, ela é codificada por meios gramaticais que indicam se a informação transmitida foi obtida de maneira direta, ...