Gramaticalization routes in Brazilian Portuguese: X-que structures in standard Portuguese

• Grant number: 06/01221-7
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: November 01, 2006
• End date: October 31, 2008
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Portuguese Language
• Principal Investigator: Maria Célia Pereira Lima Hernandes
• Grantee: Maria Célia Pereira Lima Hernandes
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The principal aim of this Project is the study and analysis about the grammaticalization routes in Brazilian Portuguese. For this, I am going to review the production of research in this theme and to review the results about the movement of the cognitives categories. This work is oriented by multisistemic model of linguistic change (Castilho 2004), because it check the atuation of activation, reactivation, desactivation principles. In second moment, I am going to verifie these same principles in X-que structures of standard Portuguese. These steps carry on the possibility to drawn some grammaticalization routes of Portuguese language. (AU)