Exploring the productivity and systematicity of Recipient passives in Mozambican Portuguese

This study aims to explore and provide a detailed description of the construction known as “Dative passives” or Recipient passives in Mozambican variety Portuguese, framework Cognitive Grammar (LANGACKER, 1991, 2008) Construction (GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006). Particular attention will be paid complex semantic categories passive ditransitive structures order identify which their conceptual aspects lay behind emergence passives. By means corpus based on Corpus do Português (DAVIES, 2016), it shown that this is found with wide range verbs transfer, thus showing increasing signs productivity, variation displayed by Portuguese not random but systematic, occurring well-defined contexts. Furthermore, adopting constructional approach at hand provides strong argument against considering derived from Double Object constructions, claim often made literature (GONÇALVES 1990, 1996, 2010). doing so, also offers delve deeper into pluricentricity tendency furthermore bound increase near future (SOARES DA SILVA, 2022).