Open AccessVerbos copulativos com locativos em Português Europeu e em Língua Gestual Portuguesa
Author(s) -
Celda Morgado,
Ana María Brito
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista da associação portuguesa de linguística
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2183-9077
DOI - 10.26334/2183-9077/rapln7ano2020a15
Subject(s) - predicative expression , linguistics , locative case , romance languages , portuguese , predicate (mathematical logic) , sign language , sign (mathematics) , verb , computer science , philosophy , mathematics , programming language , mathematical analysis
Verbs and their syntactic and semantic properties have been studied in several languages, in different theoretical frameworks. However, as for copulative verbs, studies of Sign Languages are still scarce, mainly of Portuguese Sign Language. Therefore, in this paper, some properties of predicative phrases with adjectives, participles and locatives in European Portuguese and Portuguese Sign Language are studied, comparing them with other Oral Languages, in particular Iberian Romance languages, and also with other Sign Languages. Portuguese Sign Language data seem to indicate that the copulative verb is lexically realized when there is a locative predicate and that with a non-locative predicate a null copula occurs.