The Emphatic Prefixed Concessive-Comparative Construction "ATÉ QUE PARA X, Y": elements holistically employed to express concessiveness and comparison

Authors

  • Gabriela da Silva Pires Universidade Federal de Viçosa
  • Luiz Fernando Matos Rocha Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2018.v14n1a15351

Keywords:

Construction Grammar, Concessivity, Comparison.

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present some results of the study of Emphatic Prefixed Concessive- Comparative Construction (henceforth CCCAE), schematized by “até que para x, y” and instantiated in utterances such as “Até que para um iniciante me saí bem”. The theoretical approach adopted is the Construction Grammar (GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006, FILLMORE, LEE-GOLDMAN & RHOMIEUX, 2012), and also the approaches of concessivity (KÖNIG, 1985), and linguistic comparison (HASEGAWA et al., 2010). We propose to legitimize our object of study as a Concessive-Comparative Construction. From the results of the empirical data analysis, we discuss some semantic-pragmatic aspects of the CCCAE and emphasize that this construction presents the coreferentiality between x and y as the most central configuration.

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2018.v14n1a15351



Author Biographies

Gabriela da Silva Pires, Universidade Federal de Viçosa

Professora do Departamento de Letras e Artes da Universidade Federal de Viçosa.

Luiz Fernando Matos Rocha, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Professor e pesquisador da Faculdade de Letras e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora.

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Published

2018-04-30

Issue

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

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