“Ficar a + infinitive” in european portuguese

• Autor(a) principal: Barroso, Henrique
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Confluência
• Texto Completo: https://revistaconfluencia.org.br/rc/article/view/453
• topic: verbal periphrasis; (semi)auxiliary verb; ‘passage’ and ‘biginning’ ‘continuity’ (of a new situation); European Portuguese.; perífrase verbal; verbo (semi)auxiliar; ‘passagem’ e ‘início’ ‘continuidade’ (de uma nova situação); Português Europeu.

"Ficar a + infinitive" is a construction that focuses on the ‘beginning’ of the situation denoted by the predicate whose core is the infinitive form of the verb. This value, “inceptive”, is expressed by a considerable set of other constructions, of which começar a, romper a, meter-se a + infinitive are just examples. Therefore, it is a central objective of this article to investigate the idiosyncrasies of the construction under analysis. To this end, and almost always using a corpus made up of authentic linguistic material, collected in the written press and in literary texts (late 20th century and early 21st century), – I (will) call forth several arguments, both structurally and syntactic-semantic nature.