Questões sobre a frase na obra de Émile Benveniste

Abstract

The aim of this article is to demonstrate which notions can be related for a better understanding of the term phrase in Emile Benveniste’s work (1974/2006,1966/2005). In order to do so, we investigated how this term is treated in two texts by this author, in which he gives major emphasis to this theme: Os niveis de analise linguistica and A forma e o sentido na linguagem . In the analysis of these texts, we highlighted excerpts that deal with the term phrase and point the notions which are attached to it. Thereby, we can conclude that the term phrase is connected to the notions of form and meaning , of semantic domain and of reference .