The emergence of the causative pattern [Xagent V.COM Ypatient] and its effects for the expansion of the transitive constructions network in contemporary Brazilian Portuguese

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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2019.v15n2a19326

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Constructionality. Transitivity change. Cognitive-Funcional Linguistics.

Abstract

This paper seeks to describe the expansion of the causative transitive construction, a complex, partially schematic and emergent structure in Brazilian Portuguese, which allows the increase of valence in originally inacusative verbs, according to Lopes (2015, 2017) and Lopes & Menezes (2018), who analyzed diachronic data of the verbs acabar, desaparecer and sumir. At this moment, we investigate the expansion of this construction based on synchronic data of two other verbs: cessar and explodir. In this process, we use the concept of constructionality, which aims at the synchronic study of change in functional perspective.

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2019.v15n2a19326

Author Biography

Monclar Guimarães Lopes, UFF

Doutor em estudos linguísticos e mestre em língua portuguesa pela Universidade Federal Fluminense. Especialista em língua portuguesa e literatura brasileira e graduado em letras pela Ferlagos. É vice-líder do grupo Discurso & Gramática (D&G) e pesquisador do grupo Conectivos e Conexões de Orações (CCO), ambos sediados pela UFF. Professor adjunto da Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) e professor 40h da Fundação de Apoio à Escola Técnica (FAETEC). Tem experiência na área de Letras, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: Linguística Funcional Centrada no Uso, Referenciação e Ensino de Língua Portuguesa.

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2019-12-23

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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2019): Athematic Issue

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