This paper has a synchronic/diachronic nature and aims at describing and characterizing variation of the complement [de + infinitive]-[Ф + infinitive] in five periods of Portuguese language, i.e., archaic Portugues...
When Ferdinand de Saussure (1916) granted priority to synchronic linguistics over diachronic linguistics, his intention was not to ignore the fact that language is fundamentally a historical entity. How would a ling...
MH (Marginalization Hypothesis) as put forward in this paper may well be thought of as an offshoot of the originally Prague-School idea now known as the TM (Theory of Markedness) in that it is formulated on the co...