Proposta para uma descrição do verbo quanto à categoria de voz

Abstract

My paper analyzes the voice category in the traditional grammar, that does not offer a unified treatment to the phenomenon, which implies a great taxonomic diversity. Because of this, I propose a coherent classification, considering first the concept of sign, according to Hjelmslev (1974) and additionally, the distinction founded on the opposition langue/parole, adopted by Coseriu (1979). I only study the verbal voice, not the clause voice, that is a syntactic-semantic category. I come to the conclusion that only the verbal active voice is very well characterized in Portuguese.