Introduction to Portuguese and General Linguistics

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Classes are expositive but there will always be practical exercises using PSL as working language.

Understand general linguistics notions
Apply terms from generla linguistics to PSL and Portugues
Understand basic notionsfrom morphology
Describe minimal units from PSL

1 General Linguistics
1.1 Language in the brain, language in hands
1.1.1. Iconicity, arbirtarierness, convencionality
1.1.2 Linguistc’s Branches
1.2 Language in society: Mother Language; Second Language; Natural Language; Foreign Langguae, First Language
2- Basic Morphology
2.1 Name: common; first name; civil name
2.1.1 characteristics of the name:
2.2 The verb : basic notions. Classifier verbs
2.2. 1 Plane verbs
2.3 personal, interrogative and possessive pronouns
2.3.1 classifiers (sobregeneralization)
2.3.2 Non manual espressions: suorassegmental usages
2.4 Gender markin. Lexical variation
2.5 Tense markin: syntax. Present, past, future
2.6 Plural marking
3- Minimal units in PSL
3.1 Handshape and lexical process
3.2 Movement: sylabs
33. Hand orientation
3.5 Non Manual Expression: morphological values
4 Minimal pairs

• - Frequency - 100.0%

• - Exam - 100.0%

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