On how to live and keep dying

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2013

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Selected Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2011

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This paper focuses on a verbal periphrasis of Brazilian Portuguese formed with the verb viver 'to live' + V[Gerund], 'to keep V-ing', and provides an analysis of its meaning. On the basis of the syntactic and semantic properties of the periphrasis, it is shown that it is a monoclausal construction with a single complex predicate. The meaning of viver + V[Gerund] is analyzed in terms of eventuality modification and pluractionality, specifically as a frequentative operator, building on the analysis of verbal periphrases formed with verbs of motion in Spanish proposed by Laca (2004, 2006).

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Amaral, Patrícia. 2013. On how to live and keep dying. Selected Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2011, ed. by Sarah Blackwell, Chad Howe, and Margaret Quesada, 269-80. Sommerville: Cascadilla Press.

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