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Title: Casar (marry) x Noivar (engage): a usage-based analysis for the caused action construction in Brazilian Portuguese
Other Titles: Casar x Noivar: uma análise baseada no uso para a construção de ação causada em português brasileiro
Keywords: Caused-action construction
Functional aspects
Verb-construction compatibility
Conventionalized scenario
Construção de ação causada
Aspectos funcionais
Compatibilização verbo-construção
Cenário convencionalizado
Issue Date: 2022
Publisher: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Faculdade de Letras (FALE)
Citation: CIRÍACO, L. S.; SA, T. M. M. de; SANTOS, C. F. dos. Casar (marry) x Noivar (engage): a usage-based analysis for the caused action construction in Brazilian Portuguese. Revista de Estudos da Linguagem, Belo Horizonte, v. 30, n. 2, p. 932-961, 2022. DOI: 10.17851/2237-2083.27.4.932-961.
Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the occurrence of a type of causative construction in Brazilian Portuguese, exemplified by the sentence o pai casou a filha, literally the father married the daughter, but which translates to the father supported his daughter’s wedding. We have specifically named this construction as caused-action2, to reflect both its similarities and differences from the caused-action construction described in Santos, Ciríaco and Souza (2019). Although restricted to a few verbs, this clausal meaning has become common in BP. There is evidence of its usage in social media, in which expressions such as casando a irmã (marrying the sister) and formando o amigo (graduating the friend) extends the caused-action meaning to other contexts. Grounded on the Construction Grammar Usage-based Approach (GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006, 2019), the present work examines the functional aspects responsible for the compatibility between verb and caused-action2 construction in BP, based on instances found on corpora and in social media. We argue that this pattern is constrained by a conventionalized scenario of financial, emotional or social investment.
URI: http://repositorio.ufla.br/jspui/handle/1/50980
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