Como: implicações de uma unidade léxico-gramatical

Abstract

This study aims to determine which values of the item como and the functions performed by it in the phrase/sentence. We are interested in investigating the use that the speaker gives to the term. In order to accomplish that task there will be a need to take lexical (morphology) and grammar (syntax and semantics) concepts. As common as como is in the verbal interaction, we would imagine that there would be a lot of literature about it, but the fact is that there is not. That impelled us to study that particular lexical item, in order to determine its lexical and grammatical values. This paper intends to “scratch the surface” of the problem, but, nonetheless, giving the reader a consistent lexicon-grammatical analysis of how como works in discourse, that could serve as a starting point for further analysis.