<Desatara+ infinitivo> no Português Europeu
"Desatar a + Infinitive" in European Portuguese

Summary/Abstract: <Desatar 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. However, the inceptive meaning is not exclusive to it. On the contrary, it is shared by a considerable range of other constructions (for example, and just to mention a few, começar a, pôr-se a, romper a, largar a + infinitive). Therefore, the purpose of this article is to investigate the idiosyncrasies of the construction under study. The discussion, structural and syntactic-semantic in nature, will rely almost exclusively on a corpus of authentic language material collected in the press and literary texts in the late 20th and early 21st century).

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