O verdo fazer no português do Brasil: da visão lexicalista a perspectivas cognitivo-funcionais

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Maria Carolina Ferreira Reis
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: rede de construções; verbo FAZER; Gramática de Construções; Mesclagem; Língua portuguesa Verbos; Língua portuguesa Lexicologia; Gramática cognitiva
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/MGSS-A9PHC3

This research was a study of FAZER (DO/MAKE) verb and its different uses. With a descriptive purpose, we approach previous studies of this verb that were developed from lexicalist perspectives and others based on functionalist views. For our descriptive proposal, we established, using a general syntactic-semantic criterion, six types of FAZER: full FAZER; FAZER in fixed expressions; light FAZER; causative FAZER, discursive FAZER and stative FAZER. From this typology and supported by complementary cognitive models of Construction Grammar and Blending Theory, we encountered the possibility of describing the FAZER uses in terms of construction. Following the assumptions postulated by the Construction Grammar by Goldberg (1995) that constructions are basic units of language and are pairings of form and meaning, we identified which constructions were integrated by FAZER as well as links between constructions established by inheritance relations. Complex grammatical constructions (such as constructions with causative FAZER and light FAZER) were explained as resulting from blending operations. Thus, we proceeded to re-examine our proposed typology and 18 constructions integrated by FAZER and two types of passive constructions in which FAZER may occur. Done the descriptive work, the analysis with FAZER in the journalistic genre intended to check our proposed constructional description. The first 1079 in a sample of 8000 events belonging to a corpus of the AC / DC Linguateca project were analyzed. The occurrences were classified according to the typology and the types of constructions presented in the thesis. The quantitative results indicated that the hypothesis that FAZER is a "schematic" verb could be confirmed. On the other hand, the qualitative analysis showed that border cases show the links between constructions and reinforce the premise of Construction Grammar that grammar is a large network of constructions. To confirm our hypothesis based on the premise we set at the end of our journey, we proposed a network of constructions for FAZER.