Constructional approach of subject-verb order as a focusing strategy in Brazilian Portuguese

Authors

  • Roberto de Freitas Junior Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
  • Priscilla Mouta Marques Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2020.v16nEsp.a22563

Keywords:

Usage-based Functional Linguistics, Construction Grammar, construction network, VS order, focusing.

Abstract

In the present work, we present the first results of an ongoing research that aims to map the synchronous configuration of part of the focus construction network in Brazilian Portuguese. Thus, from the theoretical-methodological assumptions of Usage-based Functional Linguistics (LFCU), we seek to describe the formal and functional characteristics of active and passive constructions licensed by the schema [(X) VSN]FOC, and represented, respectively, by the pairings [(X) VSN]ATV and [(X) VAUXVPPSN]]PAS. Although these constructions present similarities on form, concerning focalization they differ from each other: active constructions tend to present the NP focused, instead of the role sentence as we could attest most frequently in passive ones.

Author Biographies

Roberto de Freitas Junior, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística e do Departamento de Letras-LIBRAS.

Priscilla Mouta Marques, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística e do Departamento de Linguística e Filologia.

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Published

2020-11-07

Issue

Vol. 16 (2020): Special Issue - Celebrating over 50 years of the Graduate Linguistics Program at UFRJ and of the Professor Emeritus Miriam Lemle’s career

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