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Total Authors: 2
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| Affiliation: | [1] Universidade Federal de São Carlos. departamento de Letras - Brasil
[2] Universidade Federal de São Carlos - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 2
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada; v. 36, n. 1 2020-07-06. |
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ABSTRACT In this paper, we investigate with Brazilian Portuguese (PB) data Svenonius’ (2006, 2010) syntactical-semantic proposal to the so-called “axial structures”, expressions such as ‘em frente a’ that are interpreted as denoting a spatial region projected from a GROUND. After critically evaluating the Svenonius’ (2006, 2010) proposal, which claims in favor of a specific functional head as the host for a lexeme such as ‘frente’, we present Matushansky and Zwarts’ (in press) solution, which claims that this is, in fact, a “weak noun”. Our analysis of PB axial structures leads to favor Matushansky and Zwarts’ (in press) proposal. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/21110-0 - Vector Semantics and Counterdirectionality in Brazilian Portuguese |
| Grantee: | Renato Miguel Basso |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research |