masterThesis
Construção nominalizadora de particípio presente: uma abordagem funcional centrada no uso
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CORDEIRO, Fernando da Silva. Construção nominalizadora de particípio presente: uma abordagem funcional centrada no uso. 2017. 104f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Estudos da Linguagem) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2017.
Autor
Cordeiro, Fernando da Silva
Resumen
In this work, we study the nominalizing construction, responsible for the formation of nouns
and adjectives from a verbal base, formalized as [[X]V -nte]ADJ. We aim to analyze this formal
pattern as a form-meaning pairing and to identify the semantic-cognitive and discursivepragmatic
motivations implied in the recurrence of its constructs in real situations of interaction.
Our theoretical support is the Linguística Funcional Centrada no Uso (LFCU), 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
configurations. It is a research of eminently quantitative and qualitative approaches; In relation
to the objectives, it is characterized as a descriptive-explanatory research. The results point out
that, among formal properties, there is a partial syntactic-semantic correlation between verbbase
and deverbal adjective, since adjectives do not totally inherit the verbal-based syntactic
framework. In the case of functional properties, the data show the non-semantic transparency
between verbal base and corresponding adjective, in several uses of adjectives in -nte; the low
agentivity of these names; and their multifunctionality in the contexts of use in which they
occur. The adjectives analyzed are in a continuum between the category of present participle
and the category of adjectives, although in most cases they are no longer recognized as a form
of the participle. Cognitively, we also perceive the performance of metaphorical and metonymic
projections in the instances of use of [[X]V -nte]ADJ. The construction can still be characterized
as partially schematic, partly productive and partly compositional.