Path scales: directed-motion verbs, prepositions and telicity in european portuguese

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2018

Authors

Leal, António (Author) FLUP; Oliveira, Fátima (Author) FLUP; Silvano, Maria da Purificação (Author) FLUP

Book

Title: Tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality: cross-linguistic perspectives

Pages: 335-356

ISBN: 9789027200969

Electronic ISBN: 9789027263902

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Humanities > language sciences

Other information

DOI: 10.1075/slcs.197.15rod

Abstract (EN): We put forward a proposal based on the notion of path scale (e.g., Kennedy & Levin 2008) to account for the semantics of inherently directed motion verbs ir ('go') and vir ('come') combined with prepositional phrases (PPs) with the thematic role of Goal, headed by the prepositions para ('to/toward') and até ('to') in European Portuguese. We describe our corpus before discussing the syntactic and semantic properties of the predications we analyze as well as their similarity to predications with manner of motion verbs. We assume that motion verbs have an underspecified underlying scalar structure and that PPs contribute in a distinct way to the specification of one of the parameters of these path scales.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: Chapter 15