Análise entoacional e construcional das construções condicionais insubordinadas adversativas no português do Brasil
Abstract
The phenomenon of "insubordination" (EVANS, 2007) is defined as the use of constructions that
have some degree of subordination but are used independently without being subordinated to a
main clause. Thus, the main objective of this work is to provide an intonational analysis from a
constructional perspective (LANGACKER, 2008; TRAUGOTT; TROUSDALE, 2013) of
conditional insubordinate constructions headed by "se" with adversative value in Brazilian
Portuguese. Therefore, the adversative meaning of these constructions is understood as the result
of the correlation of formal and functional properties, including the intonational aspect. Although
Constructions Grammars defend the independence of linguistic levels, prosody is little
considered both in research based on this approach and in studies of insubordinate constructions.
In this dissertation, on the other hand, the intonation of these constructions is described, starting
from an ad hoc corpora consisting of insubordinate adversative conditional constructions and
conditional protases of the same lexical structure. The analyzes showed that the insubordinate
adversative conditional constructions do not have a homogeneous intonation pattern. However,
the identified intonation patterns indicate a prosodic function of prominence that proves the
contrastive meaning of these constructions and distinguishes them from other types of
insubordinate constructions (HIRATA-VALE, 2015; SILVESTRE, 2017). By comparing
insubordinate adversative conditional constructions and subordinating conditional protases, it
was proved that in these cases intonation acts as the only distinguishing feature between these
two types of constructions. In a synchronic perspective, the insubordinate adversative conditional
constructions were also subjected to a constructional description, according to the parameters of
compositionality, productivity, and generality/schematicity (LANGACKER, 2008;
TRAUGOTT; TROUSDALE, 2013), in order to understand the formal and functional
specificities of these structures. For this purpose, a data corpus was created from two corpora,
the Corpus do Português (Cdp), available online, and the C-Oral (RASO; MELLO, 2012), and
the morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic description carried out by Alves and Hirata-Vale
(2020, 2021) on these structures was also adopted. As a result, these constructions were less
compositional, since the adversative meaning is mapped by the correlation of the subparts of
these constructions; they are partially schematic, since they have a part that needs to be filled in
and another part that is fixed; and finally, they are productive, through the expansion of their
subschemata. The purpose of this study, then, is to show the contributions that arise from the
inclusion of the prosodic level in studies of a cognitive-functional nature, and to introduce this
type of analysis of conditional insubordinate constructions with adversative value in Brazilian
Portuguese.
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