What is it about?
This paper is about a transitivity alternation which occurs with verbs of creation (someone wrote a letter/someone wrote for hours). The occurrence of the alternation is explained by a polysemy process.
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Why is it important?
It is important because it casts some light in a broad crosslinguistic process, which has not been the focus of attention in previous works.
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This page is a summary of: A polysemy account of alternating verbs of creation in Brazilian Portuguese, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/shll-2016-0001.
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