TOWARDS A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION OF CLAUSES WITH THE VERB DAR IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
Keywords:
systemic functional linguistics, the system of TRANSITIVITY, brazilian portuguese, the verb dar.Abstract
Our aim is to describe Brazilian Portuguese expressions with the verb dar (give) according to the system of transitivity proposed by Halliday and Matthiessen (2004). The clauses under analysis are obtained from the corpus C-ORAL-BRASIL and then submitted to re-expression tests which facilitate their modelling. The results indicate the verb dar being used with different meanings and point to the validity of systemic researches based on one or more verbs which may have different senses corresponding to different process types.