Locative adverbes in journalistic news: a morphosyntactic approach

Abstract

The locative adverb, in real situations of use, has properties that go beyond
those provided in normative grammars. Thus, in this article, based on authors
such as Neves, 2002, 2011; Castilho, 2014; among others, we present a
description of the morphosyntactic behavior of this type of adverb, having
as corpus news leads from the newspapers Folha de São Paulo and A Tarde.
Starting from the hypothesis that the locative is influenced by properties such
as mobility, form and syntactic function, we performed a quantitative analysis
whose results confirmed its multifunctional behavior. The expectation is to
expand descriptions that contemplate adverbs and to contribute to the teaching
of this category.