Copulative verbs with locatives in European Portuguese and Portuguese Sign Language

Authors

  • Celda Morgado ESE - IPP
  • Ana Maria Brito Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto / FLUP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln7ano2020a15

Keywords:

copulative verbs, European Portuguese, Sign Languages, Portuguese Sign Language

Abstract

Verbs and their syntactic and semantic properties have been studied in several languages, in different theoretical frameworks. However, as for copulative verbs, studies of Sign Languages are still scarce, mainly of Portuguese Sign Language. Therefore, in this paper, some properties of predicative phrases with adjectives, participles and locatives in European Portuguese and Portuguese Sign Language are studied, comparing them with other Oral Languages, in particular Iberian Romance languages, and also with other Sign Languages. Portuguese Sign Language data seem to indicate that the copulative verb is lexically realized when there is a locative predicate and that with a non-locative predicate a null copula occurs.

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Published

2020-11-30

How to Cite

Morgado, C., & Brito, A. M. (2020). Copulative verbs with locatives in European Portuguese and Portuguese Sign Language . Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association, (7), 242–262. https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln7ano2020a15

Issue

No. 7 (2020): Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association

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