@article {Ranchhod:1983:0378-4169:317,
title = "On the Support Verbs Ser and Estar in Portuguese",
journal = "Lingvisticæ Investigationes",
parent_itemid = "infobike://jbp/li",
publishercode ="jbp",
year = "1983",
volume = "7",
number = "2",
publication date ="1983-01-01T00:00:00",
pages = "317-353",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0378-4169",
eissn = "1569-9927",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/jbp/li/1983/00000007/00000002/art00006",
doi = "doi:10.1075/li.7.2.07ran",
author = "Ranchhod, Elisabete",
abstract = "The description of the distributions of the two auxiliaries ser and estar in Portuguese constitutes a longstanding problem which has been usually dealt with by semantic methods. In this study, we propose a syntactic approach based on the notion of support verb, that is, on a notion
of an auxiliary verb that supports a noun which is considered to be the main predicative element. The nouns can be derived from a verb or an adjective, in which case the support verb is a central element in a nominalization transformation. The nouns can also be stand-alone nouns. We propose
here a systematic classification for these nouns.",
}