Sintaxe das expressões nominais no português do Brasil: uma abordagem computacional

Abstract

In this work we developed a computational program in Prolog language able to analyze nouns expressions in Portuguese, attributing to them their constitutive structure and their representation through labeled clasps and trees. The analyzes done in this research is based in collected data from NILC corpus, from 36 possible nouns expressions created by Portuguese language speakers, in the midst of, expressions that brings in its internal structure personal pronouns assuming the role of determiners that took nouns phrase as complement. Another objective of this research was test hypotheses about determiner phrase (DP), especially concerning of personal pronouns statute. The results finding for us prove that the personal pronouns eu, você, nós e vocês are nucleus of determiner phrase that select noun phrases as complement. This research, moreover, add not only for fill blanks in descriptive linguistics ambit, but also, for the technological development of the country, because exist a large necessity for researches in this area.