Open AccessInacusatividade e inergatividade no PB
Author(s) -
Larissa Santos Ciríaco,
Márcia Cançado
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
cadernos de estudos lingüísticos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2447-0686
pISSN - 0102-5767
DOI - 10.20396/cel.v46i2.8637169
Subject(s) - modal verb , verb , linguistics , class (philosophy) , relation (database) , reflexive verb , mathematics , natural language processing , computer science , portuguese , artificial intelligence , philosophy , database
This paper presents a descriptive analysis of intransitive verb behavior in Brazilian Portuguese, specially the verbs known as unaccusative ones. We propose a prototypical analysis of this verb class, because the tests proposed by the literature do not always reach to define exactly what are the typical properties of unaccusativity or not. As observed from the BP data, there are some typical unaccusative verbs, some typical inergative verbs, but there are also other verbs, which present properties from both classes. Thus, we show here 40 verbs from BP and their behavior in relation to unaccusativity.