Portuguese Ministers, 1851-1999: Social Background and Paths to Power. CES Working Paper, no. 100, 2003 [PDF]
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the impact of regime changes in the composition and patterns of recruitment of the Portuguese ministerial elite throughout the last 150 years.
Tavares de Almeida, Pedro, +1 more
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Null Subjects in European and Brazilian Portuguese
The goals of this paper are twofold: a) to provide a structural account of the effects of the informal ‘Avoid Pronoun Principle’, proposed in Chomsky (1981: 65) for the Null Subject Languages (NSLs), and b) to compare, in European and Brazilian Portuguese (EP and BP), the distribution of the third person pronouns in its full and null forms, to check ...
Barbosa, Pilar +2 more
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The 1998 and 2007 Referenda on Abortion in Portugal: Roman Catholicism, Secularization and the Recovery of Traditional Communal Values. CES Working Papers No. 155, 2008 [PDF]
In the thirty-three years since the April 25, 1974, Carnation Revolution, there have been sporadic efforts by progressive forces to legalize abortion in Portugal.
Manuel, Paul Christopher, +1 more
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Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the PRISMA-7 scale for European Portuguese [PDF]
Background. Frailty is an age-associated biological syndrome and a predictor of multimorbidity outcomes, whose early recognition allows for the identification of those older patients at risk.
Santiago, Luiz Miguel de Mendonça Soares +12 more
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This investigation focuses on the structural, semantic and aspectual properties of passive in Mandarin Chinese (MC) and European Portuguese (EP) from a descriptive perspective. The findings reveal systematic divergences between the two systems.
Minsi Hu
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This paper (i) describes the patterns of answers to yes-no questions in European Portuguese; (ii) presents data illustrating the acquisition of these patterns; (iii) argues that the acquisition of patterns of answer to yes-no questions in European ...
Ana Lúcia Santos
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The portuguese natural gas market in the european context [PDF]
The Portuguese natural gas market is recent and small – being an emergent market according to Directive 98/30/EC. It is still protected and monopolistic while most other European countries have already liberalized, at least partially, their natural gas ...
Ferreira, Paula Varandas +2 more
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A pessoa and uma pessoa : Grammaticalization and functions of a human impersonal referential device in European Portuguese [PDF]
The grammaticalization of nouns meaning 'man' or 'person' into impersonal pronouns (so-called man-impersonals) has been related to languages with obligatory subject expression, like Germanic languages and French.
Posio, Pekka
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The Europeanization of Portuguese Democracy
This book looks at how the European Union helped shape the political process in Portugal on such matters as key institutions, elites and citizen attitude.
Nuno Severiano Teixeira +1 more
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Differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese in the use of temporal adverbials
This paper attempts to provide a partial description of the main differences between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese concerning the form and interpretation of temporal adverbials. Two temporal domains are described in relatively more detail:
Ana Teresa Alves, Telmo Móia
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