A EMERGÊNCIA DO CONECTIVO CONDICIONAL “CASO” NO PORTUGUÊS: UMA ABORDAGEM CONSTRUCIONAL

• Ano de defesa: 2023
• Autor(a) principal: Camila Fernandes da Silva
• Orientador(a): Taisa Peres de Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Fundação Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Conectivos. Construcionalização gramatical. Neonálise. Construções condicionais.
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufms.br/handle/123456789/9567

From a theoretical and methodological perspective of Construction Grammar, the objective of this thesis is to investigate the historical development of conditional connective microconstructions with caso ("case"). Data from the 13th to the 21st century were collected from Portuguese corpora containing historical texts of various types and genres, which were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The main hypothesis guiding this analysis is that simple and complex conditional connectives with caso could be the result of a process of grammatical constructionalization, as proposed by Traugott and Trousdale (2013). Through synchronic and diachronic analysis, seven types of microconstructions with caso functioning as conditional connectives were found, arising from distinct grammatical change processes. We observed that these are subschemas centered on the nominal base caso, which may or may not be associated with the preposition em (in) and the determiner o (the), in addition to the complementizer que (that) and/or the preposition de (of). These microconstructions include: no caso que (in the case that), em caso que (in case that), caso que (case that), no caso de (que) (in the case of (that)), em caso de (in case of), and the simple connective caso (case), all of which can be accommodated into a more general subschema, namely: [(em) (o) caso (de) (que)]CONECT. Furthermore, using the contextual taxonomy proposed by Diewald (2006) and Diewald and Smirnova (2021), we found that, due to the generalizations made by language users and as a result of micro-steps of constructional change and post-constructionalization changes, the noun caso is reanalyzed as a procedural construction throughout the history of Portuguese. It eventually becomes part of two constructional subschemas integrated within the network of conditional connectors: [(Prep) N (Prep) (que)] finite (non-finite) clause]], and [Conect] finite (non-finite) clause]].