STRUCTURAL ARGUMENT PATTERN OF PERCEPTION VERBS VER E OLHAR
Usage-based functional linguistics. Argument structure. Perception verbs. See. Look.
This work consists of identify and analyze the argument structure patterns in the perception verbs see and look may occur. Aim to specifically examine the argument configuration of verbs, grouping them by type of argument structure that manifest, determine the semantic cases of arguments expressed in sentence, analyzing morphosyntactic and discursive-pragmatic aspects of these arguments and verify if there is a relationship between a given type of argument structure and textual type. As the methodological procedures, the work involves both quantitative (relating to frequency of use of the identified standards) and qualitative aspects (related to cognitive and discursive-pragmatic motivations involved in use). Databases taken as a source for analysis are the Corpus Discurso & Gramática: a língua falada e escrita na cidade do Natal (Furtado da Cunha, 1998) and the Banco Conversacional de Natal (FURTADO DA CUNHA, 2011). The research is based on the assumptions upheld by the Usage-based Functional Linguistics (LFCU), as Furtado da Cunha, Bispo and Silva (2013), adding contributions from Cognitive-functional trend, defended by Tomasello (1998). After preliminary analysis of the results, it was found that the verb see seemed to be the most prototypical – both in writing and in oral – due to present more often and be used in various contexts, probably because the view is the most basic sense of the human being. It was found, therefore, there are differences between the virtual semantic frame of a verb and its actual occurrences, just as there are differences between speech and writing, in other words the perception verbs form a heterogeneous group.