Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Análise sintática dos objetos cognatos no quadro teórico da Morfologia Distribuída

2016; University of Porto; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.21747/2183-9077/rapla8

2183-9077

Celda Morgado Choupina,

Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition

Cognate constructions form a very extended family and they exist in different world languages. In this paper, we analyze Cognate Object’s types and subtypes in European Portuguese, using the framework of Distributed Morphology. From a theoretical point of view, the assumptions of this model allow us to explain that verbs with different syntactic-semantic properties ( sonhar [to dream], tossir [to cough], cantar [to sing] and dormir [to sleep]) may occur in structures with a cognate object in verbal adjacency, typically in a direct object position. Movement by copy and co-indexing prove to be central mechanisms to the licensing of the cognate object constructions with an eventive interpretation, as in tossir-tosse [to cough-cough].