Eu peguei e apresentei: a syntactic analysis of the construction [V1 (E) + V2] in Brazilian Portuguese

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https://doi.org/10.21165/el.v54i3.3894

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The object of this article is the construction [V1 (E) + V2] in Brazilian Portuguese, particularly when V1 is the verb 'pegar', as in the examples: a) Eu peguei (e) saí de fininho; b) Ele pegou (e) falou isso p'ra mim ontem. Works such as Rodrigues (2004, 2006); Almeida and Oliveira (2010); Grilo and Tavares (2013); Daoud (2023); Carvalho and Santos (2024) offer relevant descriptions of this construction. However, there is data from the language that does not match what is described by the authors. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to present and discuss this data, taken mainly from the X platform. We argue that this new data points to an analysis in which [V1] has neither an external nor an internal argument.

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2026-03-10

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Shimada Souza, V. C. (2026). Eu peguei e apresentei: a syntactic analysis of the construction [V1 (E) + V2] in Brazilian Portuguese . Estudos Linguísticos (São Paulo. 1978), 54(3), 845–860. https://doi.org/10.21165/el.v54i3.3894

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