O processo de gramaticalização de viver: uma perspectiva sincrônica

Abstract

Grammaticalization is a fundamental process in the dynamics of languages. It is a process by which a lexical item becomes part of the grammar. Like any process, grammaticalization goes through stages. From this perspective, this work aims to map and compare the uses of to live, identifying the contexts in which it occurs as a full verb, as functional verb and as an auxiliary verb, outlining thus the behavior of this verb, a synchrony of the Brazilian Portuguese and the European Portuguese. The theoretical assumptions start from the idea that grammaticalization study of the verbs, as well as aspect, given that the process of grammaticalization by which this verb passes leads to an aspectual periphrasis with specific characteristics. Data were collected from written language corpus consisting of newspaper articles and then classified, considering the three categories of verbs. The results show that, in Brazilian Portuguese, the verb is presented preferably as a full verb, although there have been instances where it was presented as functional verb and auxiliary verb. As it concerns European Portuguese, the results point that to live was not found in the grammaticalization process, since the verb is presented primarily as full.