Transitivity: from verb to construction

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2018.v14n1a15344

Keywords:

Transitivity. Construction. Usage-based Functional Linguistics.

Abstract

In this paper we discuss verbal transitivity. More specifically, we confront the approach to this grammatical phenomenon according to grammatical tradition, the proposal of North-American Functionalism in its classic version and the usage based functional perspective articulated to Construction Grammar. Thus, we attempt to focus, mainly, on the shift from the view centered on the clause, which considers the gradience of the relation between a verb and its argument(s), to the one that postulates transitivity as a property of the construction. Thus, based on the effective uses of language in oral and written texts, we examine the transitive construction, trying to identify discoursepragmatic pressures on the perspectivation of transitive events and how these pressures reflect on the expression of the constructs that encode these events.

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2018.v14n1a15344

Author Biographies

Maria Angélica Furtado da Cunha, UFRN

Departamento de Letras 

Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos da Linguagem

José Romerito Silva, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

possui graduação em Letras pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN - (1981), graduação em Pedagogia pela UFRN (1990), mestrado em Estudos da Linguagem, área de concentração em Linguística aplicada, pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos da Linguagem - PPgEL/Letras -, UFRN (2000) e doutorado em Estudos da Linguagem (Linguística Aplicada) pelo PPgEL/UFRN (2008). É professor associado da UFRN, ministrando disciplinas de graduação na Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia e de pós-graduação no PPgEL, no qual, além disso, orienta pesquisas de mestrado e de doutorado. Atualmente, é vice-líder do Grupo de Pesquisa Discurso & Gramática, do PPgEL, desenvolvendo pesquisas na linha teórica da Linguística Cognitivo-Funcional, com especial interesse na articulação entre a Linguística Funcional norte-americana e a Gramática de Construções

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2018-04-30

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

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