The caused-action construction in Brazilian Portuguese (BrP) and its effects on the comprehension and production of BrP-English bilingual speakers

A central assumption of construction-based theories of grammar (Fillmore, Kay and O’Connor 1988; Croft 2001; Michaelis 2012 among others), especially Construction Grammar (Goldberg, 1995, 2006), is that argument structure constructions, which are clausal patterns made of ordered sequences of syntact...

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Main Authors: Larissa Santos Ciríaco, Clarice Fernandes Santos, Ricardo Augusto Souza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho 2019-12-01
Series:Diacrítica
Online Access:http://diacritica.ilch.uminho.pt/index.php/dia/article/view/410