Functional effects, prepositional semantics, and metaphorical containment in Brazilian Portuguese: the case of em, dentro de, and fora de
<p>I analyzed conventional metaphorical expressions in Brazilian Portuguese having lexicalized functional effects of spatial scenes as complements of the prepositions dentro de [inside], em [in, on, at], and fora de [out of]. The functional effects investigated were ‘protection’, ‘covering/hid...
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| Language: | Portuguese |
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Scripta |
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| Online Access: | http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/scripta/article/view/13966 |