Abstract

CALLOU, Dinah. ON THE USE OF TER (HAVE) AND HAVER (THERE TO BE) IN VERB-PHRASES: CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS PORTUGUESE-SPANISH. Lingüística [online]. 2017, vol.33, n.1, pp.33-46. ISSN 2079-312X.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2079-312x.20170003.

An overview of socio-discursive nature of verb phrases with ter/tener and haver/haber, in the so-called light verbs constructions, in Brazilian Portuguese and European and American Spanish (Madrid and Buenos Aires), based on spoken samples extracted from the NURC-Brazil Project and the Macrocorpus of standard speech of most important cities of the hispanic world. The analyses comfirm the hypotheses of (i) different degrees of functionality of those verbs to the formation of a periphrasis in a continuum, related to the possibility of acceptance of several kinds of intervenient elements between the verb and the abstract noun; (ii) the fact that this use is a consequence of the processes of grammaticalization end lexicalization and (iii) that it is necessary to take in account constraints of different nature.

Keywords : Verb-phrases; variable use of ter/tener and haver/haber as light verbs; grammaticalization; lexicalization.

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