Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: FERNANDO DA SILVA CORDEIRO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : FERNANDO DA SILVA CORDEIRO
DATE: 03/08/2021
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: Plataforma virtual Google Meet
TITLE:

"CONSTARÁ ESTA VERDADE DA SEGUINTE HISTÓRIA...": THE NOMINALIZING CONSTRUCTION OF PRESENT PARTICIPLE ON A DIACHRONIC APPROACH

KEY WORDS:

Deverbal nouns. Nominalizing construction. Present participle. Usage Based Functional Linguistics.

PAGES: 152
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Linguística
SUBÁREA: Teoria e Análise Linguística
SUMMARY:

In this thesis, we analyze the nominalizing construction of present participle, represented by the scheme [[X]_V –nte], which allows the formation of deverbal nouns and adjectives in Portuguese and finds roots in the Latin present participle. We aim to describe the formal and functional characteristcs of this construction, as well as to seek the semantic-cognitive and discursive-pragmatic motivations involved in its use, especially in relation to the recategorization of the participle form into nouns and adjectives. We defend that the participle-noun trajectory is multidirectional. This lexical construction is prototypically adjective, and the categorical fluctuation between adjective and noun is motivated, above all, by metonymic projections. Our theoretical support is the Usage Based Functional Linguistics, in the terms of Furtado da Cunha, Bispo e Silva (2013) and Oliveira and Rosário (2016), which incorporates the theoretical model of Grammar of Constructions, as proposed by Goldberg (1995, 2006), Croft (2001), Traugott and Trousdale (2013), Hilpert (2014). It is a diachronic research, whose data consist of different textual configurations in Portuguese, written between the 13th and 20th centuries. Methodologically, we characterize this research as basic in nature, whose approach is eminently qualitative, with quantitative support; as for the objectives, it is a descriptive-explanatory research. The partial results reveal an increase in the frequency of use of the construction over time, both in terms of token and in terms of type. Among the most relevant formal properties, we can cite the absence of significant changes in the morphosyntactic structure of the formal pattern; the presence of Latin verb lexemes in the construction verb slot; and the partial inheritance of the verb-base argument structure, which is, in some contexts, conditioned by semantic-cognitive and discursive-pragmatic motivations. Among the functional properties, we identified that less agentive bases are more frequent in adjective formations, while more agentive bases are more common with nouns. We found at least four meanings of construction: circumstantial, aspectual, evaluative and agentive, which are established through the interaction of morphosyntactic, semantic-cognitive and pragmatic factors. The processes of (inter)subjectivity and pragmatic inference are crucial for the expansion of the meaning of the instantiations of the construction in the contexts which they occur, as evidenced by the positive and negative evaluations carried out in the use of some constructs.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - CARLOS ALEXANDRE VICTORIO GONÇALVES - UFRJ
Presidente - 1551756 - EDVALDO BALDUINO BISPO
Interna - 345.159.097-20 - MARIA ANGELICA FURTADO DA CUNHA - UFRN