Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2014
Abstract
This study aims to provide a survey of periphrastic aspectual constructions (imminent ingressivity) in contemporary European Portuguese. The research was initially conducted on periphrastic constructions in the two main Portuguese Corpuses, the CETEM/Público and the Corpus do Português, and was then followed by semantic analysis.
Periphrasic construction are divided acording to their aspectual value into three basic groups: ingressive periphrasis (including sub-groups rendering imminent, dispositive, initial end inceptive value); durative and terminative periphrasis.