Abstract (EN):
This chapter addresses the alternation between eventive and stative readings of
predications projected by some verbs of motion in European Portuguese. We propose
that these predications correspond to non-phase individual level predicates in their
stative reading and this is justified with a set of well-established linguistic tests
presented in the literature. We also analyse some linguistic factors underlying the
stative/eventive alternation exhibited by these verbs, namely the tense used in the
predication and some lexical properties of the Figure argument. We further assume
that the relationship between the Figure argument and the path projected by this kind
of verbs plays an essential role in their final interpretation. We argue that both stative
and eventive readings arise as a result of aspectual composition and that these spatial
verbs are lexically underspecified regarding the state/event distinction.