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Particularidades da morfossintaxe das construções ditransitivas com o verbo 'DAR' na Língua Gestual Portuguesa

2016; University of Porto; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.21747/2183-9077/rapl2a6

2183-9077

Celda Choupina, Ana María Brito, Fernanda Bettencourt,

linguistics and terminology studies

In this study we analyze some morphosyntactic aspects of the verb DAR (to give) in LGP (Portuguese Sign Language) in simple declarative sentences, in particular, two properties: (i) the position of the arguments regarding the verb and (ii) the agreement of the verb with the internal arguments.We defend that the basic word order in ditransitive constructions is S V DO IO, although other syntactic processes, such as simple and double topicalization may, apparently, call into question the existence of that basic pattern.