Constructionalization and paradigmatization of epistemic constructions in Brazilian Portuguese

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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2024.v20n1a63200

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This paper presents a refinement of the analyzes on epistemic parenthetical constructions (EPC) to present the microsteps of change and the paradigmatization of verbal, adjectival and nominal in Brazilian Portuguese. According to Barbosa (2023), EPC are consolidated as modal adverbial constructions through grammatical constructionalization, a change that consists of the creation of a new node in the network of modalizers. With the contextual taxonomy of Diewald and Smirnova (2012), it’s possible to describe the four stages of change, considered by the authors as atypical, critical, isolating and paradigmatic contexts. The analysis of empirical data is based on a corpus consisting of letters written by Brazilian missivists between the 18th and 21st centuries, supplemented, in the latter period, by texts of letters and chronicles published in Brazilian online magazines and samples of speech from a variety of BP (Gonçalves, 2007). The results found show that the subschemes described in Barbosa (2023) demonstrate distinct stages that are generated through constructional changes that lead the generic schema to achieve grammatical constructionalization.

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Letícia de Almeida Barbosa , Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP/IBILCE)

É graduada em Letras (Português-Inglês) pela Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul e mestre em Letras (Estudos Linguísticos) pela mesma instituição. Desenvolveu, por meio de iniciação científica, um estudo diacrônico da parentetização de verbos de atividade mental do português brasileiro e, em nível de mestrado, investigou os aspectos sintáticos, semânticos e pragmáticos que atuam no processo de gramaticalização verbos cognitivos do português em perspectiva funcional cognitivista. Atualmente, é pós-graduanda em Psicopedagogia nas Faculdades Integradas Urubupungá e cursa doutorado em Estudos Linguísticos na Universidade Estadual Paulista, onde investiga, por meio de um estudo pancrônico, o esquema parentético modal do português brasileiro.

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2024-04-21

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Vol. 20 No. 1 (2024): Language and intersubjectivity

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