A confluência entre o Funcionalismo e a Gramática de Construções: um estudo sobre as construções comparativas no Português Brasileiro (The confluence between Functionalism and Construction Grammar: a study on comparative constructions in Brazilian Portuguese)

Caio Aguiar Vieira; Valéria Viana Sousa

doi:10.22481/el.v18i1.6048

Authors

Caio Aguiar Vieira State University of Southwest of Bahia (Uesb/Brazil) http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4054-7791
Valéria Viana Sousa State University of Southwest Bahia (Uesb/ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8243-9281

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v18i1.6048

Keywords:

Functionalism. Construction Grammar. Que nem. Comparative Constructions.

Abstract

The aim of this article is to highlight the theoretical and methodological gains, resulting from the interrelationship between Functionalism and the Construction Grammar, especially in the conception that language is structured from a network of interconnected constructions. Indeed, in linguistic analysis both aspects of form and meaning are considered. To illustrate this question, we use the data from the study by Vieira and Sousa (2019) focusing on comparative structures instantiated by the "que nem" connector in Brazilian Portuguese, taking as a sample the speech data from the corpora Popular e Culto from Vitória da Conquista. The results of this work showed that the comparative subschema, governed by "que nem", instantiates two microconstructions, one of them characterized by the [+ orational] anchorage, and the other marked by the [- orational] relation. In general, we found that all analyzed microconstructions share the comparative formal-meaning configuration, allied to cognitive factors and subjectivity.

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Author Biographies

Caio Aguiar Vieira, State University of Southwest of Bahia (Uesb/Brazil)

Caio Aguiar Vieira has a master's degree in Linguistics (PPGLin) from the State University of Southwest Bahia (UESB), with a defense in March 2020. Scholarship holder from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). Graduated in Letters from the same institution (2017). He received a scientific initiation scholarship. He is a member of the research group on Sociofunctionalism and Historical Linguistics - CNPq. They have experience in Linguistics, with an emphasis on functionalist approaches to grammar and linguistic change from a functionalist perspective, working mainly with the following themes: construction changes and grammatical construction, connective, construction grammar, cognition and subjectivity.

Valéria Viana Sousa, State University of Southwest Bahia (Uesb/

Valéria Viana Sousa holds a PhD in Letters, an area of concentration in Linguistics and Portuguese Language from the Federal University of Paraíba - UFPB (2008). She is currently a full professor at the State University of Southwest Bahia (UESB). She is a research professor at the Postgraduate Program in Linguistics (PPGLin) and the Professional Master's in Letters (ProfLetras). He has experience in the area of Linguistics, with an emphasis on Sociolinguistics, Sociofunctionalism and Grammaticalization. Coordinates the research project "Studies of Linguistic Phenomena in the Functionalist Perspective from the description and analysis of the corpus of the speech community of Vitória da Conquista". He is leader of the Study Group on Historical Linguistics and Sociofunctionalism - CNPq.

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