Tempo verbal e acionalidade do verbo principal: estudo descritivo das perífrases aspectuais com os verbos ficar e continuar

Abstract

This work aims to research verbal aspects in verbal periphrases in Portuguese written in informal language such as they happen in social networks, more specifically in Twitter posts. Our tool for data collection was Topsy, an app able to extract Twitter posts. We found in our corpus obtained using Topsy all occurrences presenting all verbal tenses and we selected occurrences having the verb “stay” and “continue” + gerund. We examined actionality in those periphrases and we classified them according to their specificity. We perceived in the studied periphrases that most occurrences were expressly imperfective and perfective aspects.