The role of functional factors in the semantic compatibilization between verb and passive construction in brazilian portuguese
This paper aims at investigating the role of functional factors in the semantic compatibility between verbs and the passive construction in Brazilian Portuguese. Specifically, we analyze the Affectedness Restriction (Pinker et al, 1987) and the Agent Defocusing Function (Shibatani, 1985, 2006), conc...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) |
| Repositorio: | Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8664032 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/cel/article/view/8664032 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Construção de estrutura argumental passiva Compatibilização semântica Fatores funcionais Construcción de la estructura argumental pasiva Compatibilización semántica Factores funcionales Passive argument structure construction Semantic compatibility Functional factors |
| Resumo: | This paper aims at investigating the role of functional factors in the semantic compatibility between verbs and the passive construction in Brazilian Portuguese. Specifically, we analyze the Affectedness Restriction (Pinker et al, 1987) and the Agent Defocusing Function (Shibatani, 1985, 2006), concluding that those aspects of meaning are gradual and complementary constraints. Besides that it is shown that the passive construction has a conventionalized scenario as an aspect of its meaning, which functions as a type of coercion mechanism. The conventionalized scenario licenses the compatibility of some verbs that, otherwise, would not be used in the passive, being responsible for extending the coverage of the construction. |
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