Rota de Gramaticalização dos advérbios ainda e sempre

Abstract

 This paper presents a possible route for the grammaticalization of items ainda (still) and sempre (always), traditionally classified as adverbs of time in Portuguese language. We study how that items start their grammaticalization process. What we know is the unidirectionality of this change move these lexical items to a grammatical items. The sample of spoken language was extracted from 340 hours of recordings with speakers of standard Portuguese in the 70s by researchers on the project NURC-SP.