Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality

We put forward a proposal based on the notion of path scale (e.g., Kennedy & Levin 2008) to account for the semantics of inherently directed motion verbs ir (‘go’) and vir (‘come’) combined with prepositional phrases (PPs) with the thematic role of Goal, headed by the prepositions para (‘to/toward’) and até (‘to’) in European Portuguese. We describe our corpus before discussing the syntactic and semantic properties of the predications we analyze as well as their similarity to predications wi