(IM)PERFECTIVITY, ACTIONALITY AND TEACHING: USING NOTIONS OF FORMAL SEMANTICS IN BASIC EDUCATION

Abstract

This research report aims to describe the semantics of past tense inflection in Brazilian Portuguese and its relationship with the concept of (a)telicity and duration. The research is based on the theory of Formal Semantics and, therefore, through an introspective methodology of data analysis and contributions from the notions of tense, grammatical aspect (Klein, 1994) and lexical aspect (Vendler, 1967), we seek shown that the combinations between the temporal-aspectual morpheme of events in the past tense of the Brazilian Portuguese indicative with the lexicon can generate interpretative differences in declarative sentences. Furthermore, three didactic proposals were created based on the methodology of active linguistic learning (Pilati, 2017) as a suggestion for approaching the subjects discussed by the theory presented in basic education.