Banca de DEFESA: FERNANDO DA SILVA CORDEIRO

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STUDENT : FERNANDO DA SILVA CORDEIRO
DATE: 04/11/2021
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Plataforma Google Meet
TITLE:

Nouns ending in -nte on a diachronic view: a functional usage-based approach.

KEY WORDS:

Deverbal nouns in –nte. Nominalizing construction. Usage Based Functional Linguistics. Construction Grammar.

PAGES: 217
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Linguística
SUBÁREA: Teoria e Análise Linguística
SUMMARY:

In this thesis, we analyze the nominalizing construction represented by the scheme [[X]_V – nte]_N, which allows the formation of deverbal nouns and adjectives in Portuguese, like governante, seguinte e representante, 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 nouns in –nte instantiate a form-meaning pairing. The participle-name trajectory is multidirectional, 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 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 descriptive-explanatory research. The 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. Metaphorical and metonymic projections are also important mechanisms for the semantic extension of the constructs. We characterize the construction as partially schematic, with relatively high productivity and intermediate compositionality. Formal and functional evidences that points to the recategorization of the participle present in nouns, in a process of multidirectional change. We attribute the categorical fluctuation between the lexical categories of adjective and noun to metonymic mappings. Both in the recategorization of the present participle and in the categorical fluctuation, the underlying mechanism of change is that of neoanalysis. 

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1551756 - EDVALDO BALDUINO BISPO
Interna - 362.345.593-87 - MARIA CLAUDETE LIMA - UFC
Externo à Instituição - CARLOS ALEXANDRE VICTORIO GONÇALVES - UFRJ
Externa à Instituição - MARIANGELA RIOS DE OLIVEIRA - UFF
Externo à Instituição - NATIVAL ALMEIDA SIMÕES NETO - UEFS