Aspecto terminativo: verbos auxiliares no português brasileiro

Abstract

This paper presents some features of the terminative auxiliaries in Brazilian Portuguese; it summarizes the ideas about them especially from Travaglia’s (1985) and Castilho’s (2002) works; it shows Portner’s (2005) approach about Aspect and describes the aspectual expression of these verbs. Portner (2005) considers that the Aspect is connected basically with the relations between the Topic Time (T) and Event Time (E). We apply this proposal to the terminative auxiliaries to verify how we can describe the aspectual contribution from these verbs in Brazilian Portuguese.