Light verbs features in European Portuguese

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2010

Authors

Duarte, Inês (Author) Other; Gonçalves, Anabela (Author) Other; Miguel, Matilde (Author) Other; Oliveira, Fátima (Author) FLUP; Mendes, Amália (Author) Other; Hendrickx, Iris (Author) Other; Cunha, Luís Filipe (Author) Other; Silva, Maria de Fátima Henriques da (Author) FLUP; Silvano, Maria da Purificação (Author) FLUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of Verb 2010 Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs: The Identification and Representation of Verb Features

Pages: 27-31

Verb 2010 Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs

Pisa, 2010

Scientific classification

FOS: Humanities > Languages and Literature

CORDIS: Humanities > language sciences

Other information

Abstract (EN): We present a study of constructions of the type <light verb + noun> in European Portuguese. We analyse these constructions as complex predicates where both the light verb and the noun share an important role in the predication and we focus on the aspectual combinatory properties of the two elements of the complex predicate. We propose that light verbs inherit the feature specification of the corresponding main verbs, but that the light verbs are underspecified regarding (some of) the event structure features.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific