Variabilidade semântica e sintática dos nomes dos dias da semana
Semantic and syntactic variability of the names of the days of the week

Summary/Abstract: This study represents the summary of a wider qualitative and quantitative investigation and contains significant results pertaining to the nominal and adverbial constructions which incorporate the names of the days of the week in contemporary Portuguese. We focus on the internal structure of constructions introduced by different prepositions and study their temporal and aspectual value. One of the most important aspects of our investigation is also the occurrence of definite, and marginally also indefinite articles with the names of the days of the week in different constructions, and the position of the adjectives próximo/passado in these expressions. We likewise include liturgical names and proverbs. Our aim is also to prove that the occurrences of the article depend on the prepositional type. For our investigation, we used the corpora of Linguateca (Cetem Público and Vercial), InterCorp and Corpus do Português.

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