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

• Tipo: Capítulo ou Parte de Livro
• Data: 2018

Autores

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

Livro

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

Páginas: 335-356

ISBN: 9789027200969

ISBN Eletrónico: 9789027263902

Editora: John Benjamins Publishing

Classificação Científica

CORDIS: Humanidades > Ciências da linguagem

Outras Informações

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.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Notas: Chapter 15