The construction of meanings in the use of adjectives ending in -nte: a functional-cognitive approach
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https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v18i1.6130Keywords:
Usage-Based Functional Linguistics. Construction Grammar. Present participle nominalizing construction. Deverbal adjectives.Abstract
In this paper, we discuss the usage of adjectives ending in –nte, instances of the nominalizing construction of present participle. We aim to explain how these adjectives profile and activate cognitively structured domains of our experience, since linguistic forms represent roughly the conceptualizations constructed by speakers from our experiences with the world. It is a qualitative and quantitative research and, it has descriptive and explanatory objectives. The database are the Corpus Discourse & Grammar, Natal and Rio de Janeiro sections, and the Electronic Corpus of Historical Documents of Sertão, Bahia. The results show that there are three recurring meanings of the present participle adjectives and that there are different degrees of transparency between the adjectives' meanings in use and the frames evoked by their verbal bases. Social and interactional factors contribute to the extension of meanings observed in the use of adjectives formed by the construction.
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CROFT, W. Radical construction grammar: syntactic theory in typological perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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FILLMORE, C. J. Frame Semantics. In: The Linguistic Society of Korea (ed.) Linguistics in the morning calm. Seoul: Hanshin, 1982, p. 111-137.
FRIED, M. Representing contextual factors in language change: between frames and constructions. In: BERGS, A. & DIEWALDS, G. (Ed.). Contexts and constructions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009.
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_______.; ÖSTMAN, J. Construction grammars: cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005.
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GIVÓN, T. Funcionalism and grammar. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1995.
GOLDBERG, A. E. Constructions at work: the nature of generalization in language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
HILPERT, M. Construction Grammar and its application to English. Edimburg: Edimburg Univeristy Press, 2014.
HOPPER, P. J. Emergent grammar. Berkeley Linguistics Society. v. 13. p. 139-157, 1987.
LAKOFF, G.; JOHNSON, M. Philosophy in the flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to western thought. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
LANGACKER, R. Conceptualization, symbolization and grammar. In: TOMASELLO, M. (Ed.). The new psycology of language. New Jersey, London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate Publishers, 1998. p. 1-39.
MARTELOTTA, M. Mudança linguística: uma abordagem centrada no uso. São Paulo: Cortez, 2011.
NEGRÃO, E. V. et al. O adjetivo. In: ILARI, R. (Org.). Gramática do Português culto falado no Brasil. v. III: palavras de classe aberta. São Paulo: Contexto, 2014. p. 243-265.
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NORDE, M.; TROUSDALE, G. Exaptation from the perspective of construction morphology. In: NORDE, M.; VAN DE VELDE, F. (Ed.). Exaptation and Language Change. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016, p. 163-195.
TAYLOR, J. Linguistic Categorization: Prototypes in Linguistic Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
TRAUGOTT, E. Revisiting subjectification and intersubjectification. In: DAVIDSE, K.; VANDELANOTTE, L.; CUYCKENS, H. (eds.). Subjectification, intersubjectification and grammaticalization. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2010, p. 29-70.
______. Intersubjetification and clause periphery. English Text Constructions. v. 5 (1), p. 7-28, 2012.
TRAUGOTT, E. C.; DASHER, R. B. Regularity in semantic change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
TRAUGOTT, E. C.; TROUSDALE, G. Construcionalization and Constructional Changes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
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BISPO, E. B.; CORDEIRO, F. da S. The construction of meanings in the use of adjectives ending in -nte: a functional-cognitive approach. Language Studies, [S. l.], v. 18, n. 1, p. 85-104, 2020. DOI: 10.22481/el.v18i1.6130. Disponível em: https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/estudosdalinguagem/article/view/6130. Acesso em: 22 nov. 2024.
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