A construção prefixal de modificação de grau - uma abordagem construcionista da morfologia derivacional

Abstract

This work aims at analyzing the Prefixal Degree Modification Construction (henceforth CPMG) and it is part of the Project “Superlative Morphological Constructions in Portuguese” (MIRANDA, 2011). This thesis examines one of the nodes from those superlative morphological constructions that is constituted by the prefixes (super-; ultra-; mega-; arqui-; maxi-; macro-; mini- and micro-); which can be exemplified as: (1) As modelos da Alessa entram com o cabelo hiper volumoso no Fashion Rio. Será tendência?; (2) Eu estava numa festa da minha prima. Me sentindo super!; (3) Eu mega curti o look dela na festa...incrível! We used as theoretical framework to develop this work the Cognitive Construction Grammar (GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006; BOAS, 2013) as a Usage Based Model (GOLDBERG, 2006; BYBEE, 1985, 2006, 2008, 2010; LANGACKER, 1987; CROFT; CRUSE, 2004), the Frames Semantics (FILLMORE, 1977, 1982, 2008, among others) and Constructicon Formalization Models (FILLMORE, et. al., 2012). The methodological choice was oriented by the commitment to empiricism, so we have developed a Corpus-based analysis (GONZALEZ MARQUEZ, et al., 2007), which implied in the use of treated electronic corpora (Corpus do Português e Floresta Sintática) and in this case with computational tools (the electronic concordance engine Web Concordancer Beta). Furthermore, other analytical parameter accounted was the frequency sensitivity of the data types and occurrence tokens - respectively connected to productivity and conventionalization. In this bias, this thesis illustrates the methodological turn promoted by socio-cognitivists, constructionist grammar and lexicon studies, which reveals the relevance of use in the linguistic variation. The outcome of the analysis, from an specific corpus constituted by 1.821 occurrences, lead to two CPMG patterns: (1) Noun CPMG, that could be classified in two sets: type (i) - Size, that is related to the frame Position_in_a_superlative_scale_of_size; type (ii) - Polissemic, that is related to the frame Position_of_entity_in_a_superlative_scale; (2) the Predicative CPMG, that is related to the frame Intensity. Finally, we argue that the results have showed that is vital an interface between Morphology and Construction Grammar (RHODES, 1992; BOOIJ, 2010).