Inacusatividade e inergatividade no PB

Abstract

This paper presents a descriptive analysis of intransitive verb behavior in Brazilian Portuguese, specially the verbs known as unaccusative ones. We propose a prototypical analysis of this verb class, because the tests proposed by the literature do not always reach to define exactly what are the typical properties of unaccusativity or not. As observed from the BP data, there are some typical unaccusative verbs, some typical inergative verbs, but there are also other verbs, which present properties from both classes. Thus, we show here 40 verbs from BP and their behavior in relation to unaccusativity.