Custodio Martins
List of John Benjamins publications in which Custodio Martins is involved.
Articles
2020 The Lexical Aspect Hypothesis: Off-line evidence from Chinese learners of European Portuguese as an L2 Linguistic Approaches to Portuguese as an Additional Language, Molsing, Karina Veronica, Cristina Becker Lopes Perna and Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños (eds.), pp. 109–148 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the acquisition of tense and aspect by Chinese learners of Portuguese as an L2 from a variationist perspective (Bayley, 2013). Difficulties in acquiring the aspectual contrasts set by the Perfect Preterit and Imperfect Preterit tenses in Romance languages have been… read more
2014 Cross-linguistic transfer of core aspectual conceptualizations in Portuguese and Spanish: Theoretical and methodological factors Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces: Diachrony, synchrony, and contact, Amaral, Patrícia and Ana Maria Carvalho (eds.), pp. 335–355 | Article
Aspect is a complex grammatical concept inherently affected by contextual information. Such complexity may be determined by stark contrasts between levels of information and layers of context affecting its interpretation. Convergence in aspectual interpretation decreases as layers of contextual… read more