‘Ao contrário’, ‘do avesso’ e ‘de trás para frente’: codificações da contradirecionalidade no português brasileiro

Renato Miguel Basso

doi:10.20396/cel.v61i0.8654586

Vol. 61 (2019), Artigos

Vol. 61 (2019)

' Backwards ', ' reverse ' and ' backward to front ': encodings of contradirecionality in Brazilian Portuguese

Artigos

https://doi.org/10.20396/cel.v61i0.8654586

Published 2019-04-02

Renato Miguel Basso⁺⁻

Renato Miguel Basso

Federal University of São Carlos

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Keywords

counterdirectionality
modifiers
event semantics

How to Cite

BASSO, Renato Miguel. ’ Backwards ’, ’ reverse ’ and ’ backward to front ’: encodings of contradirecionality in Brazilian Portuguese. Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos, Campinas, SP, v. 61, p. 1–16, 2019. DOI: 10.20396/cel.v61i0.8654586. Disponível em: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/cel/article/view/8654586. Acesso em: 3 jul. 2024.

Abstract

This paper analyzes the Brazilian portugues expressions ‘de trás para frente’, ‘ao contrário’ e ‘do/ao avesso’ as event modifiers that belong to the counterdirectional domain. This domain includes event modifiers that denote events which occur in response or in the opposite direction to a previous event or to the usual development of a given event type. In this paper, in the first section, we present the counterdirectional domain and its main characteristics; in the next section we present the relevant data and a preliminary description. Section 3 presents our analysis proposal, anchored in Zwarts’ theory of trajectories (2005, 2008). In our analysis, the expressions investigated carry a specific presupposition, and denote events that develop contrary, as defined in the present paper, to what is expected.

https://doi.org/10.20396/cel.v61i0.8654586

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