' Backwards ', ' reverse ' and ' backward to front ': encodings of contradirecionality in Brazilian Portuguese

This paper analyzes the Brazilian portugues expressions ‘de trás para frente’, ‘ao contrário’ e ‘do/ao avesso’ as event modifiers that belong to the counterdirectional domain. This domain includes event modifiers that denote events which occur in response or in the opposite direction to a previous e...

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Autor: Basso, Renato Miguel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8654586
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/cel/article/view/8654586
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:counterdirectionality
modifiers
event semantics
ontraadreción altiquealidad
modificadores
semántica de los eventos
Contradirecionalidade
Modificadores
Semântica de eventos.
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Sumario:This paper analyzes the Brazilian portugues expressions ‘de trás para frente’, ‘ao contrário’ e ‘do/ao avesso’ as event modifiers that belong to the counterdirectional domain. This domain includes event modifiers that denote events which occur in response or in the opposite direction to a previous event or to the usual development of a given event type. In this paper, in the first section, we present the counterdirectional domain and its main characteristics; in the next section we present the relevant data and a preliminary description. Section 3 presents our analysis proposal, anchored in Zwarts’ theory of trajectories (2005, 2008). In our analysis, the expressions investigated carry a specific presupposition, and denote events that develop contrary, as defined in the present paper, to what is expected.