As construções binominais no constructicon do português do Brasil

Abstract

This work is engaged in the binominal construction in Brazilian Portuguese of N-of-N type, being developed under the FrameNet Brazil (FN-Br), more specifically linked to the implementation of the project Constructicon the Portuguese of Brazil. The FN-Br is a computational lexicography project, which aims to build a source of lexical search for the Portuguese of Brazil (BP) based on frames and supported by corpus evidence. One of the work areas of FN-Br is the implementation of a "Constructicon" which, simply, would be a construction repertoire of the language in question. Our proposal for description and analysis of binominal construction set identified in the researched corpus is developed in the light of the Construction Grammar (Goldberg, 1995; CROFT, 2007) and Semantic frames (FILLMORE, 1982 PETRUCK, 1996). Our study seeks to also get acquainted with some work investigating the binominal construction N-of-N type N in other languages, mainly in Italian (MASINI, 2015) and English (KAY, 1997; AARTS, 1998; TRAUGOTT, 2007, 2008). Following a contemporary trend of Cognitive Linguistics, namely the adoption of a Corpus Linguistics methodology, the description proposed here was built from the observation and analysis of real data of linguistic usage. Overall, the project adopts the assumptions of a Model Based on Use (Bybee, 1985, 1995). Our research identified in the analyzed data, a set consists of eight binominal constructions. Building on criteria proposed by Lage (2013), we selected a subset of these constructions for which the constructional description proves more appropriate than the lexicographical description. Here thus a description of the proposed Constructicon to four constructions of the type C-N. We understand that this is an important step in the gap filler work related to the study of binomial constructions in Portuguese in Brazil.