O debate acerca da ordem das palavras

continuidade e desenvolvimento de um tópico desde as teorias racionalistas da língua do século XVII

Authors

  • Gerda Haßler Universidade de Potsdam

Keywords:

word order, syntax, construction, direct object

Abstract

Word order was one of the most commonly discussed topics relating to grammar and language theory in the 17th and 18th centuries. For languages with a freer word order than French, such as Portuguese, attempts were made to standardize the word order modeled on the French system. Critics of the doctrine of the ordo naturalis realized already in the 18th century that the linearization through language had to follow more complex principles. Thus, fixed word order was not presented as a virtue, but rather as a necessity resulting from the lack of inflected endings and providing a balance in the expression of sentence relationships.

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Published

2012-05-01

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