Abstract

CALINDRO, Ana Regina Vaz. CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PREPOSITIONS THAT INTRODUCE INDIRECT ARGUMENTS IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE. Lingüística [online]. 2015, vol.31, n.2, pp.61-72. ISSN 2079-312X.

Abstract: The main focus of this paper is to propose an approach to ditransitive constructions in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) with dynamic verbs of transfer and movement as well as creation verbs. In BP, the indirect objects (IOs) that accompany these verbs can be introduced by two distinct prepositions: ‘a’ and ‘para’. Throughout this text, I will demonstrate that these prepositions have a lexical interpretation in BP. Therefore, differently from European Portuguese (EP), the Brazilian variety does not participate in the dative alternation (cf. Larson 1988, Marantz 1993, Pylkkänen 2002), as it does not have applicative heads in its argument structure. Thus, I assume that the ditransitive sentences in BP have a pP head as part of the internal structure of its prepositional phrase (cf. Svenonius 2003, 2007, 2010; Marantz 2009, 2013; Wood 2012)

Keywords : prepositions; ditransitive sentences; argument structure; Brazilian Portuguese.

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