O progressivo no português europeu de hoje: expressão, combinatória e variação
The progressive in the modern European Portuguese: expression, combinatorics and variation

Summary/Abstract: With this research, based on a sample of authentic linguistic material (mostly taken from the written press and from literary texts), following the preferences or tendencies, I pretend to, on the one hand, reveal/describe the syntacticsemantic combinatorics (the propositional types and respective forms they co-occur with, types of subjects and their quantification, number and nature of the arguments and their syntactic configuration) and the semantic-lexical combinatorics (what aspectual types of verbal predicates they combine with – ‘state verbs’, ‘process verbs’, ‘culminated process verbs’, ‘culmination verbs’ or ‘point verbs’ – and their significant implications) of the ‘progressive’ (<estar a + infinitive> and <estar + gerund>) in present-day European Portuguese and, on the other hand, identify/determine their variation.

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