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Brazilian Portuguese Pronominal Verbs: How to Identify Them?

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Language, Music, and Computing (LMAC 2015)

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This paper shows the difficulties in delimiting Brazilian Portuguese Pronominal Verbs (BPPV) and proposes a way based on the theoretical assumptions of functionalism (especially the Dutch current) to formalize them, with a view to treatment of linguistic knowledge into computational-linguistic contexts. In this way, it aims, from a lexical-grammatical characterization of BPPV, to (i) systematize different subtypes of this verb type – such as: verb + SEpassive, verb + SEinherent, and verb + SEreflexive, identified from the different types of clitic SE; (ii) establish a comparison between various classifications checked for these verbal subtypes; and finally (iii) to establish a formal proposal to represent these different pronominal verbs subtypes based on Functionalism theoretical assumptions, with the objective of to addressing this linguistic knowledge into linguistic-computational contexts, such as the implementation/refinement of WordNet.Br verbs base. In this way, it is hoped to contribute with two complementary domains of research, the Linguistic Domain and the Linguistic-Computational Domain.

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Notes

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    Clitics are a particular type of pronouns matching to unstressed personal pronouns that occur attached to the position of verb complements, but they are not limited “to denote the grammatical person and can display a predicative function, or be overlaid of morphosyntactic features characteristics of some derivational suffixes” [22]. They can be thought as forms that are in the “middle way” between autonomous lexical items and affixes [23].

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    It is important to highlight that not all speakers support this type of construction, considering the deletion of the clitic SE a marginal realization of the Portuguese language.

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Lenharo, A.C. (2015). Brazilian Portuguese Pronominal Verbs: How to Identify Them?. In: Eismont, P., Konstantinova, N. (eds) Language, Music, and Computing. LMAC 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 561. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27498-0_7

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