towards an analysis of errors made by university students ... - DSpace

27
30 lbid. p.170.
SJ Ibid.
p.173.
32 Ibid. p.161.
33
Ibid. p.162. On pages 164-7 Sinclair points out the
variety of meanings concerning the mobility of colour adjectives
and the classifying ones; he illustrates the possibility of
attributing two different structures in A DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE
- a) an exciting performance, or b) the performance of a play.
As a) the structural elements are d ea h (in which ea stands
for qualitative adjectives) and as b) the structural elements
are d ec h (in which ec stands for classifying adjectives).
24 As to the usual positions of adjectives in Portuguese
we have already referred to BACK, Eurico & MATTOS, Geraldo.
Gramática construtural da lingua portuguesa. See note 14. We
are interested in analysing the way our students have dealt
with English nominal groups as to the class-shift from the
structural element (m) in English nominal groups to its
equivalent in Portuguese at (q), as well as their treatment
given to the compulsory structural element h in the same nominal
groups. ,
25 CATF0RD, p.25, 75-6.
See Appendix 2.2.4. for a full list of errors.
2 7 •
CATFORD, p.10. Collocation, as devised by Catford, is
the 'lexical company' that a particular item keeps. In Portuguese
'magro' does not collocate with 'timpano'.