Functional analysis of the connectors ‘em vez de' and ‘ao invés de' in contemporary Brazilian Portuguese

Authors

  • Ivo Costa Rosário Universidade Federal Fluminense Instituto de Letras Departamento de Letras Clássicas e Vernáculas
  • Idrissa Ribeiro Novo Universidade Federal Fluminense Doutoranda em Estudos de Linguagem

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2018.v14n1a14978

Keywords:

Insted of, rather than, connectors

Abstract

Based on Usage-Based Functional Linguistics, the present work aims to describe the main morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic properties of constructions em vez de and ao invés de, in contemporary Brazilian Portuguese. An analysis of both constructions allows one to conclude that these connectors convey the value of substitution, not just opposition, as traditional approaches try to defend.

 

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2018.v14n1a14978

Author Biographies

Ivo Costa Rosário, Universidade Federal Fluminense Instituto de Letras Departamento de Letras Clássicas e Vernáculas

Instituto de Letras
Departamento de Letras Clássicas e Vernáculas
Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos de Linguagem
Teoria e Análise Linguística

Idrissa Ribeiro Novo, Universidade Federal Fluminense Doutoranda em Estudos de Linguagem

Colégio Pedro II
Professora de Língua Portuguesa

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Published

2018-04-30

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Vol. 14 No. 1 (2018): Construction Grammar

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