Quem cala consente: functional-construcionist approach to headless relative clauses introduced by ‘quem’

Authors

  • Edvaldo Balduino Bispo Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v25i52.40823

Keywords:

Usage-based Functional Linguistics. Construction Grammar. Formulaic expressions. Headless relative.

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the use of the headless relative clauses introduced by “who” in formulaic expressions, such as “Quem casa quer casa”, considering its morphosyntactic organizing forms, argument structure patterns, semantic, cognitive and socio-interactional aspects related to it. The study is qualitative and quantitative and it is supported theoretically by Usage-based Functional Linguistics (FURTADO DA CUNHA; BISPO, 2013) and Construction Grammar (GOLDBERG, 2006; TRAUGOTT; TROUSDALE, 2013). The database are 100 formulaic expressions taken from Google. The results show that the morphosyntactic configuration of the clauses that constitute the formulaic expressions is related to semantic aspects (counterpoint / language game, cause-effect relations), interactional factors (pragmatic inference, inter/subjectivity) and cognitive aspects (metaphorical and metonymic projections).

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Author Biography

Edvaldo Balduino Bispo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

Professor Associado da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Câmpus de Natal, onde atua nas áreas de Língua Portuguesa, na graduação, e de Linguística, na pós-graduação. Coordenou o Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos da Linguagem (PPgEL/UFRN), biênios 2015-2017 e 2017-2019, e o GT Descrição do Português da Associação Nacional de Pós-graduação e Pesquisa em Letras e Linguística (ANPOLL), biênio 2016-2018. Pesquisador do Grupo de Estudos Discurso & Gramática, desenvolve projetos e orienta trabalhos contemplando temas relacionados à morfossintaxe do português em perspectiva funcional, além de questões relativas ao ensino de língua portuguesa na Educação Básica. É coorganizador dos livros Orações relativas no português brasileiro: diferentes perspectivas (EDUFF, 2014) e Variação e mudança em perspectiva construcional (EDUFRN, 2018).

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Published

2020-09-21

How to Cite

Bispo, E. B. (2020). Quem cala consente: functional-construcionist approach to headless relative clauses introduced by ‘quem’. Gragoatá, 25(52), 601-626. https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v25i52.40823

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 52 (2020): Grammar of constructions and interfaces

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