As construções com objeto cognato em português: análise baseada no uso de um desencontro sintático-semântico e sua modelagem formal pela gramática das construções

Abstract

The Portuguese cognate object construction (COC) research goes through generative hypothesis to find solid grounds in usage-based cognitivist and unificationalconstructionist lands. It is observed that COCs occur with optional transitive verbs, with unergative intransitive and also with unaccusative intransitive verbs. The COCs with intransive verbs instantiates a syntatic-semantic mismatch, which non-default relations are pragmatically licensed for them to support the cognate noun in a syntactic focus position: as in a transitive pattern mirrowing. This motivation is based, firstly, on the pressuposition that some specification will be structurally given to identify the cognate noun, and, secondly, it is based on the possibility of a CO to be constructed as a ‘single focus’ of that verbal scenic conceptual reconstruction. Such COCs’ contextual restrictions are explained within syntax-semantics relational levels, to which is bound a set of stylistic-fonographical and aspectual-psychological effects. These following facts are observed: Firstly, that nominalization, simultaneously, pruns verbal arguments and enables free informational filling-up in a cognate noun phrase. Secondly, that nounverbal root repetition occurs among other licenced repetitions, on the one hand, apparently just redundant stuffs, on the other hand, it valorizes each specific new information that, in COs, concentrates on a modifier and/or on a strong determiner and/or even on a cognate noun suffix. Thirdly, that the variation in number of instantiated arguments of a same verb confirms the ‘multiple inheritance’ hypothesis, referred to as ‘borrowed valence’, locally unified to pragmatic licences for adequate interpretability of COCs in descriptive contexts. The empirical approach amounts Google occurrences, partially annexed and classified in a ‘Representative Portuguese COCs Corpus’; and the formalization of theoretical data consists in an applied implementation to the following models: Construction Grammar (CxG), Semantic Frames Grammar (FrameNet), and Sign-Based Construction Grammar (SBCG). By the COCs inquiry, it is recognized a direct pragmatically leveled interference into the other grammatical levels, a sufficient condition to prove the plausibility of a contextual grammar or a (Socio)Cognitive and (Socio)Constructionist Grammar.