A semântica de construções com verbos-suporte e o paradigma Framenet

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the semantics of support verb constructions with dar and fazer from Brazilian Portuguese, through the description of frames underlying these expressions and the analysis of occurrences extracted from electronic corpus. The choice for this theme was due to the identification of the lack of descriptions for these constructions in Semantics, Lexicography and Computational Linguistics. In order to accomplish this research, the lexicography resource FrameNet was used for the semantic annotation of one hundred sentences with support verb constructions. The research discussed, mainly, the semantics of support verb constructions, the applicability of the resource FrameNet for their description and the possibility of finding patterns of occurrence among these irregular and productive expressions. Through the analysis that was carried out, it was possible to check that the constructions follow certain selection restrictions and can be associated to each other considering semantic roles in common.