REMARKS ON LIGHT VERBS: THE VERB BATER AND DISTRIBUTED MORPHOLOGY

• Grant number: 22/15669-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2023
• End date: April 30, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Rafael Dias Minussi
• Grantee: Heloísa de Avila da Silva
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to study the common properties that the light verbs presents and what are the contexts in which they can appear. For this, we will investigate the relations between the light verbs, especially the verb "bater", and the third list (Encyclopedia) of the theoretical model of Distributed Morphology, (DM) that is, if the light verbs can be - or not - decoded by the Encyclopedia. Our research is based, at first, on the Distributed Morphology (Halle; Marantz, 1993); on the definitions and the case study of Pederneira (2014); on the definitions and case study of Pante (2000), that makes a diachronic analysis of the light verbs occurrence; and on the definitions and analysis proposal of Alves and Figueiredo (2019). Therefore, we will describe and analyze the verb bater under the following general objectives: i) i) deepen the description of light verbs in brazilian portuguese; ii) contribute to the theoretical framework of DM and point out the properties contained in the third list. For this purpose, we will analyze the verb through a selection of data that contains the daily uses of the verb bater, from social media, for example, under the hypothesis that the verb bater behaves like a light verb and that its properties can be described by the third list of MD. Key-words: Light Verbs; Verb Bater; Distributed Morphology; Encyclopedia.