Análise descritiva dos verbos psicológicos do português brasileiro

Abstract

This paper presents a descriptive analysis of the psychological verbs in Brazilian Portuguese. A new classification for these verbs is proposed: in the current literature we find two classes of psychverbs; I propose four different classes based on a fine-grained approach of thematic relations. AIso, I make a thorough revision of many syntactic and semantic properties of psych-verbs. Accorcling to this analysis, I present some clues towards a semantic approach to the problems related to those verbs. As there are interesting questions related to psych-verbs conceming the organization of argument structure, I hope the data presented are useful to other researchers from different lines, working with Brazilian Portuguese.