Construction of nominalisation of present participle: a usage-based approach
Nominalisation. Usage-based Linguistics. Construction Grammar.
In this work, we study the construction nominalisation, responsible for the formation of nouns and adjectives from a verbal base, formalized as [X-nte]. We aim to analyze this formal pattern as a form-meaning pairing and to identify the semantic-cognitive and discursive-pragmatic motivations implied in the recurrence of its constructs in real situations of interaction. Our theoretical support is the Linguística Funcional Centrada no Uso (LFCU), or usaged-based linguistics, as characterized in Furtado da Cunha, Bispo and Silva (2013), and contributions of the theoretical model of Construction Grammar as formulated by Goldberg (1995, 2006), Croft (2001), and more recently by Traugott and Trousdale (2013). The data for this research were collected from the Corpus Discurso & Gramática, sections Natal and Rio de Janeiro, which has oral and written texts, produced by informants of different educational levels, representing five textual typologies. It is a research of eminently qualitative approach, with quantitative support; In relation to the objectives, it is characterized as a descriptive-explanatory research. The preliminary results points to a partial syntactic-semantic correlation between verb and deverbal adjective, as well as attests to the lower agentivity of these names and their multifunctionality in the contexts of use in which they occur.