Towards a Syntactic Lexicon of Brazilian Portuguese Adjectives

Ryan Saldanha Martinez (1) , Jorge Baptista (2, 3) , Oto Araújo (1)

1 UFSCar - Federal University of São Carlos
2 UAlg - Universidade do Algarve
3 INESC-ID - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa

This paper aims to present an ongoing large-scale classification of Brazilian Portuguese adjectives. The 2,000 most frequent adjective lemmas in a reference corpus, corresponding to 88% of the occurrences of adjectives, were classified into predicative and non-predicative. The former were further classified based on argument number (one or two) and type (noun phrase or clause), which led to six different classes of predicative adjectives plus two sub-classes. The results suggest that the most representative class is non-predicative adjectives, followed by intransitive adjectives with noun phrase and clausal subjects, respectively.

Mots clés: Adjective; Brazilian Portuguese; Lexicon-Grammar; Support verb construction; Syntactic dictionary; Non-predicative adjective

Domaines: Linguistique; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Ryan Saldanha Martinez, Jorge Baptista, Oto Araújo. Towards a Syntactic Lexicon of Brazilian Portuguese Adjectives. International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR), Mar 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. pp.532-538. ⟨hal-04495538⟩