A rede de construções quantificadoras mórficas sufixais: uma contribuição da gramática das construções à morfologia derivacional

Abstract

This paper analyses, in a cognitive and constructionist perspective, a node of the vast network of Suffixal Morphic Quantifying Constructions, recognized as a morphological strategy evocation of the notion of collectivity in Portuguese, as illustrated with the following examples: (i) {XN-ADA} (“Com AXE vou pegar a mulherada.”); (ii) {XN-ARADA} (“No meio daquela brinquedarada toda tinha um brinquedo que, pelo menos o que eu acho hoje, era da família daqueles patinhos de borracha [...]”); (iii) {XN-AIADA} (“Após a cachaçaiada é sempre bom beber bastante liquido [...]”). This case study supports a broader theoretical object, the proposition for a constructionist approach to derivational morphology (MIRANDA, 2013; RHODES, 1992). Cognitive Construction Grammar (GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006; BOAS, 2013), a Used-based Model of Language (BYBEE, 2010; CROFT AND CRUSE, 2004), provides the central theoretical apparatus to this study. The Cognitive Linguistics premise of claiming the centrality of experience in the creation of language grants another crucial support to this analysis, which is the proposition of convergence between the constructionist approach and Frame Semantics (FILLMORE, 1977, 2009[1982], 1985; PETRUCK, 1996; RUPENHOFER et al., 2010). Given the amount of use in the theoretical and analytical model adopted, corpus-based Cognitive Linguistics (FILLMORE, 2008[1992]; MCENERY, XIAO AND TONO, 2006) was the methodology chosen. It implies the use of electronic corpora, computational tools and quantitative analysis of the data in terms of type frequency and token frequency (BYBEE, 2010; GOLDBERG, 1995). The analysis points out, among other things, to the consistency of a constructionist approach for derivational morphology, as well as the cognitive and linguistic richness of the constructional patterns under investigation. The constructs, established by the COLLECTION image schema (JOHNSON, 2005; CLAUSNER AND CROFT, 1999), evoke the Quantity and Desirability frames, presenting itself as quantifying and evaluation strategies relevant to distended genres of Portuguese.