As Small Clauses complementos adjetivais do português brasileiro

Abstract

Small clauses complement of judicative verbs are structures that, in full sentences, occupy the syntactic position of internal arguments of verbs as to consider, to judge, etc. They can be nominal, prepositional and adjectival. This research defines the analysis of small clauses whose predicates’ cores are adjectival phrases (APs). In particular, the scope is to point ambiguous readings towards these predicates, unlike the literature that claim to have only one interpretation. Regarding the analysis corpus, it is not made by the collection in a database, thus he is formed by intuitive judgments as native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. The methodology is bibliographic and exploratory. The theoretical studies consist of Borges Neto (1991), Borges Neto (2003), Gomes (2006), Kratzer (1995), Rothstein (1995) and Stowell (1983). As a result it is observed that by the compositional structure as a whole, that is, the predicate embedded, the full sentence, the opaque context (assigned by the verbs of propositional attitudes as, for example, the predicate to consider) the small clauses complement’s APs can present individual-level and / or stage-level interpretation.