Verbos de movimento, preposições direcionais e escalas

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2015

Authors

Leal, António (Author) FLUP; Oliveira, Maria Fátima (Author) FLUP

Conference proceedings National

Title: XXX Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística: textos seleccionados

Pages: 353-366

XXX Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística

Porto, 22 a 24 de outubro de 2014

Scientific classification

FOS: Humanities

Other information

Resumo (PT): Prepositions para and até are apparently similar in some contexts, but they give rise to distinct interpretations that are related to the aspectual profile of the predications. This work aims to explore the differences between para and até regarding the telicity of the predications projected by verbs of movement of the type caminhar. Two theoretical perspectives are compared and the data presented suggest that the contribution of these prepositions to the telicity of the predications can be described in a more accurate way by using the notion of ‘scale’, in a similar way to apparently unrelated constructions such as Degree Achievements.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific