Analyse d’adverbes par verbes supports

Ranchhod, Elisabete Marques, Analyse d’adverbes par verbes supports. Exemples du portugais. Linx, 34-35,«Lexique, syntaxe et analyse automatique des textes» (1996), pp. 211-218, Paris: Université de Paris X, Nanterre.

The analysis of the syntactic properties of sentences with support verb estar Prep (to be Prep) in Portuguese has shown that the nominal phrases issued from the reduction of estar behave syntactically as an adverb. 

Within the scope of this note, we shall discuss: (i) the syntactic operations involved in the formation of such adverbials, and, in particular, the reduction of estar in elementary sentences of the form: N₀ estar Prep N W; (ii) their introduction in sentences, and their syntactic dependencies (that is, their scope).