“Vê se lê este artigo”: the emergence of an idiomatic construction with vê/veja se s in Brazilian Portuguese
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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2023.v19n1a57235Keywords:
idiomatic constructions, Vê/veja se, Neoanalysis, language change.Abstract
This paper aims to outline the diachronic trajectory of an idiomatic construction with VÊ/VEJA SE S (as in “Vê se me liga” and “Vê se não se atrasa”) in Brazilian Portuguese. Based on the theoretical framework of the Usage-Based Construction Grammar and on the approach to language change proposed by Traugott and Trousdale (2013), it is aimed to provide explanations about the emergence of this construction in the language. We adopted as methodology the quantitative and qualitative-interpretative analysis of data extracted from the Corpus do Português. In summary, what the results demonstrate is that this idiomatic construction, specialized in the function of making a demand to the interlocutor, emerges in the 19th century from a mechanism of neoanalysis of constructs of an imperative construction with orational complement.
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