Como-gerund clauses in European Portuguese : figuring out the riddle
Leal, António (University of Porto)
Lobo, Maria (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Silvano, Purificação (University of Porto)

Data:	2024
Resum:	Previous literature on the typology of gerund clauses in Portuguese has overlooked a peculiar type of clauses which are always introduced by como ('as') and display an array of characteristics that set them apart from all other gerund clauses (and from other, somehow similar, constructions in different languages). In this paper, we provide an in-depth syntactic and semantic characterisation of these como-gerund clauses and the contexts in which they arise, highlighting their similarities and differences regarding other constructions, namely resultative and depictive secondary predicates. We put forward a proposal to deal with their syntactic configurations and the restrictions they exhibit. We also propose that como is obligatory in these clauses because it marks a type-shift operation, which gives como gerund clauses a predicative interpretation, usually found in the nominal domain.
Nota:	Altres ajuts: António Leal and Purificação Silvano were funded by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., project UIDB/00022/2020. Maria Lobo was funded by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., through the research Unit CLUNL, projects UIDB/LIN/03213/2020 and UIDP/LIN/03213/2020.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Gerund clause ; Predicative complements ; European Portuguese ; Secondary predication ; Type-shift
Publicat a:	Isogloss, Vol. 10 Núm. 3 (2024) , p. 1-29 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v10-n3-leal-lobo-silvano
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.329

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