2020
Jorge Baptista et al., « Grammatical dictionary of Portuguese verbs », HAL-SHS : linguistique, ID : 10670/1.2gy154
This Grammatical Dictionary of Portuguese Verbs contains about 5,500 verbal lemmas, selected from among the most common verbs in contemporary European Portuguese, for which more than 7,000 constructions are described, distributed over about 70 lexical-syntactic classes, each of which specifies: (i) The number and distributional nature of the arguments; (ii) The nominal or sentential nature of the arguments; (iii) The type of complement (finite/infinitive, in the indicative/subjunctive mood, introduced by the Portuguese equivalent of 'the fact that' or not); (iv) Coreference constraints between the arguments of the main verb and the subject of the complement; (v) The prepositions that introduce the complements; (vi) The main transformational operations (passive with auxiliary verb 'ser' or 'estar', pronominal passive, middle, pronominalization of complements, symmetry, etc.); and (vii) The semantic roles (agent, patient, experimenter, object, cause, spatial location [4 subtypes], temporal location, etc.) of the different argument positions of each construction.The formal model of the dictionary also differs from similar works in that for each verb, examples illustrating the verbal constructions in use have been automatically generated - something that, as far as we know, had never been done before.The dictionary, like other grammatical dictionaries, is intended not only for specialists or university students, but also for the common reader, insofar as the terminological and formal apparatus is reduced to the essential minimum. A detailed introduction clearly presents the concepts, mode of use and abbreviations used, and is also enriched with different tables and indexes that give access to the diverse information compiled.