NOTIONAL CHRONOLOGY AND AUXILIARITY IN PORTUGUESE: THE CASE OF THE VERB TER Cover Image

CHRONOLOGIE NOTIONNELLE ET AUXILIARITÉ EN PORTUGAIS : L’EXEMPLE DU VERBE TER
NOTIONAL CHRONOLOGY AND AUXILIARITY IN PORTUGUESE: THE CASE OF THE VERB TER

Author(s): José Manuel Catarino Soares
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: notional chronology; lexical dematerialization; primary auxiliaries; portuguese.

Summary/Abstract: Notional Chronology and Auxiliarity in Portuguese: the case of the verb ter . In both romance and germanic languages at least, there is a strong connection between the notional chronology of lexemes and those verbs committed to an auxiliary role. The psychomecanism of internal subduction (= episodic lexical dematerialization) is the revelatory fact of such a connection. In this article I aim at analysing this connection with regard to the portuguese verb ter (« have »), one of the primary auxiliary verbs of this language.

  • Issue Year: 60/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 105-118
  • Page Count: 14