O traço aspectual de telicidade e suas realizações no português do Brasil e no espanhol do Chile

Abstract

Telicity is related to an aspectual feature of a situation which has an 
inherent endpoint. This paper aims to investigate the realizations of the feature [+ telic] in Brazilian Portuguese and in Chilean Spanish. In order to do so, we applied to three Brazilian Portuguese native speakers and to three Chilean Spanish native speakers a semi-spontaneous production test. To investigate the different realizations of the feature [+ telic] in the concerned languages, we analyzed all telic clauses produced by the informants. Regarding the Brazilian Portuguese, we verified that the feature [+ telic] can be expressed by a complement of specified cardinality, by a prepositional adverbial 
adjunct which marks the endpoint or by these two constituents together. Regarding the Chilean Spanish, we verified that the feature [+ telic] can be expressed in the same ways as in Brazilian Portuguese and can be expressed by the aspectual operator "se" 
combined with a  complement of specified cardinality. In both languages, we observed 
the majority use of a complement of specified cardinality to express the feature [+ telic], but this use occurred more frequently in Brazilian Portuguese