The emergence of the causative pattern [Xagent V.COM Ypatient] and its effects for the expansion of the transitive constructions network in contemporary Brazilian Portuguese

This paper seeks to describe the expansion of the causative transitive construction, a complex, partially schematic and emergent structure in Brazilian Portuguese, which allows the increase of valence in originally inacusative verbs, according to Lopes (2015, 2017) and Lopes Menezes (2018), who ana...

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Main Author: Monclar Guimarães Lopes
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2019-12-01
Series:Revista Linguística
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Online Access:https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rl/article/view/19326