A morfossintaxe do português brasileiro e sua estrutura argumental: uma investigação sobre anticausativas, médias, impessoais e a alternância agentiva. Tese apresentado ao

This paper explores the notion of modality through a corpus of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) spontaneous speech corpus, based on the Speech Patterning Theory (CRESTI, 2000). Morpholexical modality indexes were identified in tone units within each corpus utterance. Through qualitative and quantitative methodologies, it was possible to conclude that: verbs are the major modality agent in BP and the epistemic modality is the most frequent type found. It was also observed that BP allows for multiple modal valency utterances and tone units.

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ReSUmOAplicamos dois modelos sintáticos para a alternância causativa, quais sejam, a Sintaxe Lexical, de Hale & Keyser (2002)

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