The X-ada construction: a case of constructionalization

Authors

  • João Carlos Tavares Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) / Centro de Ciências e Educação Superior a Distância do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (CEDERJ) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2646-3981

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2021.v17n3a49683

Keywords:

constructionalization, -ada suffix, diachronic morphology.

Abstract

The objectives of this article are, firstly, to discuss the constructionalization process of X-ada, presenting what this construction inherits from the origin category and in what it innovates, and, secondly, to morphosemantically describe the analyzed constructions. For these purposes, only the two oldest X-ada patterns of the language will be analyzed, namely, X-adaATO DE… and X-adaGOLPE. This work is based on the main assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics (LANGACKER, 1987; 2008) and constructional approaches (BOOIJ, 2010; TRAUGOTT; TROUSDALE, 2013). It is argued throughout this text that the derivational X-ada construction has its origin in the participle, characterizing a process of constructionalization (TRAUGOTT; TROUSDALE, 2013). For the morphosemantic description of the analyzed constructions, the proposal of Tavares da Silva (2020) is taken as a basis, whose core is the identification of the schematic meaning of the morphological construction.

Author Biography

João Carlos Tavares, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) / Centro de Ciências e Educação Superior a Distância do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (CEDERJ)

Pós-doutorando em linguística pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Tutor presencial do curso de Letras do Centro de Educação à Distância do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e professor substituto da Faculdade de Formação de Professores (FFP-UERJ).
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Published

2021-11-03

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Vol. 17 No. 3 (2021): Synchronic and diachronic grammatical studies

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