Construções recíprocas e construções de predicação ramificada : análise sintáctica e semântica

• Autor(a) principal: Branco, António H.
• Data de Publicação: 1993
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/35224
• topic: Língua portuguesa; Reciprocidade; Sintaxe; Semântica; Teses de mestrado - 1993; Domínio/Área Científica::Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas

The main goal of the research reported here was the development of an integrated syntactic and semantic analysis of reciprocals. Along the lines of the MA course which this dissertation corresponds to, the integrated syntactic and semantic analysis was shaped up as an analysis in which, without neglecting the widely accepted autonomy both of Syntax and Semantics, the syntactic and the semantic components played a decisive role as to enforcing the plausibility of each other. Directed by that goal, this research elicited the following major result: there is enough empirical evidence for acepting with a high level of plausibility the hypothesis that, at least in Portuguese, reciprocals are variants of constructions which were termed as branchlng predication constructions or zoom constructions (ZCs). This result was obtained through the concatenation of different subtasks. After a brief introduction (Chap. 1), an assessement of previous proposals concerning reciprocals was compiled (Chap. 2). Next (Chap. 3), the generic syntactic and semantic properties of ZCs were drawn up: it was shown that reciprocals exhibit these same properties and that the specific properties of reciprocals result from the interaction of those ZCs'generic properties and the specific properties of the elements which are canonical parts of reciprocals. Finaly, a formal syntactic analysis of ZCs, in general, and reciprocals, in particular, was build up using the Government and Binding Theory (Chap. 4). Paralell to this syntactic analysis, a formal semantic analysis was constructed in the Discourse Representation Theory (Chap. 5). The execution of these subtasks led to the accomplishement of the starting goal of coming up with an integrated syntactic and semantic analysis of reciprocals. It led also to the accomplishement of an aditional result - secondary as regards the main obJective of the research but nonetheless interesting and important -. namely the accomplishement of an lntegrated syntactic and semantic analysis oÍ ZCs, a sui generis type of constructions which have been disregarded in the literature.