The image of the Immaculata as Patroness of Portugal and a motif in traditional jewellery pendants

Gold and silver pendants representing Our Lady of Conception were some of the most common examples in traditional Portuguese jewellery during the 19th century and first half of the 20th century, following a typological variety of crosses and hearts. In popular culture, these images reflect the great devotion, service and defence that the Dogma of Immaculata had in Iberian Peninsula, strongly supported by the Franciscan Order, which sustained the idea that the Virgin was conceived without sin....

Indefinities and bare nouns in generic contexts in European Portuguese

The main goal of this work is to describe how singular and plural indefinites without modification in preverbal subject position behave in generic contexts and how they relate to bare nouns in European Portuguese (EP) in the same position and con- texts. In what concerns the distribution of bare nouns (BN) in subject preverbal position without modifiers, a contrast between Germanic and Romance languages has been noticed: plural count nouns and mass nouns are grammatical in English, but not in...

European Union and Macao - China: The Importance of Digital Public and Economic Diplomacy

This article addresses the role of digital public / economic diplomacy, as part of bilateral relations between the European Union and Macao (China), bearing in mind the specificities of this Special Administrative Region and most notably the European Union Office to Hong Kong and Macao. From a geopolitical and geoeconomic standpoint, the research also concerns Macao's affirmation, in domestic and international terms, while serving as a meeting point for Portuguese-speaking countries and integ...

Some issues on quantification in consecutive clauses

The sentences with consecutive clauses have been a controversial topic because not only their syntactic status but also their semantic interpretation are confronted with many problems which give rise to different analysis. Our aim in this paper is to propose a semantic analysis of finite subordinate consecutive sentences in European Portuguese grounded on quantificational issues. In fact, quantification in consecutive sentences plays a very important role regarding their interpretation. The d...