O progressivo no portugues europeu de hoje: expressao, combinatoria e variacao

• Authors: Henrique Barroso

Title variants

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THE PROGRESSIVE IN THE MODERN EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE: EXPRESSION, COMBINATORICS AND VARIATION

• Languages of publication: PT

Abstracts

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With this research, based on a sample of authentic linguistic material (mostly taken from the written press and from literary texts), following the preferences or tendencies, I pretend to, on the one hand, reveal/describe the syntacticsemantic combinatorics (the propositional types and respective forms they co-occur with, types of subjects and their quantification, number and nature of the arguments and their syntactic configuration) and the semantic-lexical combinatorics (what aspectual types of verbal predicates they combine with – ‘state verbs’, ‘process verbs’, ‘culminated process verbs’, ‘culmination verbs’ or ‘point verbs’ – and their significant implications) of the ‘progressive’ (<estar a + infinitive> and <estar + gerund>) in present-day European Portuguese and, on the other hand, identify/determine their variation.

Keywords

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PROGRESSIVE; GRAMMATICALIZATION; VARIATION

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Studia Iberystyczne
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 13-33

Contributors

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Henrique Barroso

• Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, PORTUGAL