Differentiating Brazilian and European Portuguese Multiword Adverbs
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https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln11ano2024a7Keywords:
Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, language varieties, compound adverb, multiword expressionsAbstract
The identification of Portuguese multiword adverbs in texts such as de fininho ‘sneakily’ or em plena luz do dia ‘in broad daylight’ is an essential part of determining the meaning units forming a text. This paper explores the boundaries of adverbial multiword expressions in European and Brazilian Portuguese varieties. The primary purpose is to determine the frequency and distribution of the expressions in the pt TenTen18 corpusfrom Sketch Engine. Furthermore, we aim to analyze lexical and grammatical differences, as well as some cases of ambiguity and faux-amis(false-friends) between the two varieties. Finally, we seek to establish the boundaries of the variety-specific lexicon (European and Brazilian), which is part of our ongoing investigation on identifying, collecting, and providing a syntactic-semantic description of multiword adverbs in (Brazilian) Portuguese based on similar studies for European Portuguese, French, and Spanish. We adopt and adapt the classification proposed by Molinier and Levrier (2000), based on the Lexicon-Grammar theoretical-methodological framework.
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