The metaphor in the grammaticalization process of the verb DANAR to express inceptive aspect with extension of the action in Brazilian Portuguese

This paper aims to present how a metaphor acts in the grammaticalization process of the verb DANAR, from Brazilian Portuguese, ranging from the full lexical verb to the grammatical, auxiliary verb in constructions like: "The kid danou(-se) to cry", hereby referred to as V1DANAR + (pron) +...

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Main Authors: Thaís Franco de Paula, Sueli Maria Coelho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Series:Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-63982015000200453&lng=en&tlng=en