THE VERBAL PREDICATION OF ARRIVING, COMING AND GOING BEFORE AND AFTER NGB

Abstract

This article discusses the intransitive predication of the verbal triad arrive/go/come with the sense of movement/displacement from one point to another. To this end, we start from the hypothesis that the current classification of these verbs as Intransitives, having the adverbial adjunct as a complement, was not so attributed before the institutionalization of the NGB – Nomenclature Thus, based on Azeredo (2008), we analyzed four grammars published before and after the publication of this government instrument and found that, before 1959, these verbs were classified as Relative Transitive, and their complement was called Terminative. After this date, they are classified as Intransitives and the complement, Adverbial Adjunct, as defined by two grammarians. However, Bechara (1980), whose work was also analyzed in this study, and although he recognizes that, from the NGB onwards, verbs are classified into four categories, defends that the triad should be classified as adverbial transitives with the adverbial complement, categories that were not made official by the Nomenclature.