The Portuguese inflected infinitive and its conceptual basis

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This paper offers a conceptual analysis of the Portuguese inflected (or personal) infinitive. The analysis makes use of a few concepts of Cognitive Grammar. The inflected infinitive is described as an objective construal of the main participant of a process type. This conceptual import is consistent with the grammatical behavior of the inflected infinitive. After giving an overview about the structural properties of the inflected infinitive in modern Portuguese, the paper will describe the continuum of event asymmetry in which the inflected infinitival clause holds an intermediate position between the subordinate finite clause and the infinitival clause. The meaning of the inflected infinitive is therefore characterized by imagery dimensions that are specific to subordinate constructions, namely independence, specificity, grounding, prominence and objectivity/subjectivity. Finally, some aspects relating to the distribution of inflected infinitival (complement, adverbial and subject) clauses will be analyzed in terms of semantic compatibility.
Idioma originalEnglish
Título da publicação do anfitriãoAsymmetric events
EditoresB. LewandowskaTomaszczyk
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company
Páginas227-243
Volume11
ISBN (impresso)9789027238993, 9789027291028
Estado da publicaçãoPublicado - 2008
Evento9th International Conference of Cognitive Linguistics/Session on Asymmetric Events - Yonsei University, Seoul
Duração: 17 jul. 200522 jul. 2005
Número de conferência: 9

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NomeConverging Evidence in Language and Communication Research

Conferência

Conferência9th International Conference of Cognitive Linguistics/Session on Asymmetric Events
País/TerritórioKorea, Democratic People's Republic of
CidadeSeoul
Período17/07/0522/07/05

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