Da combinatória sintáctico-semântico-lexical do progressivo, progressivocomitativo e progressivogradativo no PE actual

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 syntactic-semantic 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>), ‘comitative-progressive’ (<andar a + infinitive>, <andar + gerund>, <viver + gerund> and <viver a + infinitive>) and ‘gradative-progressive’ periphrasis (<ir + gerund>, <vir + gerund> and <vir a + infinitive1>) in present-day European Portuguese and, on the other hand, identify/determine their variation and/or specialization in meaning.