This paper investigates the ergative pattern in Portuguese from an innovative point of view on three main aspects. Firstly, from the observation that the ergative pattern features meaning itself, independently of the meaning ...

Este texto estuda algumas construções nominais do ponto de vista das operações da linguagem. Desse modo, no lugar de se estudar os valores ou significados dessas construções procura-se muito mais mostrar a natureza do ...

This paper examines the phrasal pattern [TREM + adjective], in 1000 occurrences of Twitter samples, aiming to ascertain - from the perspective of the Construction Grammar and the Language Based Model of Use and Grammaticalization ...

In this paper, we discuss the concept of construction according to Goldberg (1995, 2006) and Croft (2001) constructionist perspective. In this direction, first we deal with aspects related to the nature and the properties ...

This thesis examines grammatical constructions with the verb to go in Brazilian Portuguese. The hypothesis is that this verb, accompanied by other linguistic elements (like ver, que, lá and ainda) plus another sentence, ...