Aspectual constructions [andar + gerund] and [viver + gerund] in Portuguese

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Ana Clara Teixeira
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Coelho, Sueli Maria
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.21814/diacritica.630
• topic: Aspecto verbal; Construção verbal; Variante linguística; Verbal aspect; Verbal construction; Linguistic variant

This work chose as object of study two aspectual constructions of the Portuguese language: [V1ANDAR (TO WALK)+ V2GERUND] e V1VIVER (TO LIVE) + V2GERUND]. Based on a quantitative and a qualitative analysis of 542 data collected in the Corpus do Portuguêsdatabase (https://www.corpusdoportugues.org/), in a synchronous profile that includes three centuries (XVIII, XIX and XX), we evaluated the hypothesis that such constructions would be linguistic variants. The results showed that, despite both constructions evoking the notion of iteration, they are not linguistic variants. It was found that the construction whose auxiliary is the verb VIVER (TO LIVE) denotes an aspectual notion whose internal time limit is unknown, while the construction whose auxiliary verb is ANDAR (TO WALK) translates an aspectual notion whose time limit and duration are known. It was also identified that the constructions introduced by the verb ANDAR (TO WALK) are more likely to be ambiguous than those introduced by the verb VIVER (TO LIVE).