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Eventualidades incrementais e a semântica de terminar
Fecha
2011-06Registro en:
0102-5767
Autor
Bertucci, Roberlei Alves
Resumen
This work aims to research the semantics of terminar ‘to finish’ in the periphrasis terminar de + infinitive,literally ‘finish of + infinitive’. Following Rothstein’s (2004) work on incremental predicates, we argue that this aspectual verb selects for a predicate which denotes an incremental eventuality as its argument, since it expresses the culmination of this eventuality. We also show that the selection of incremental eventualities related to terminar is a crosslinguistic fact.