Sintaticization and semanticization of the verbal periphrasis andar, continuar, ficar, viver + gerund in the history of Paulista Portuguese

Author(s)

Flávia Orci Fernandes

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
• Defense date: 2012-05-15

Examining board members

Ataliba Teixeira de Castilho; Rodolfo Ilari; Sebastião Carlos Leite Gonçalves

• Advisor: Ataliba Teixeira de Castilho

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the diachronic change of the constructions with the verbs andar (to walk), continuar (to continue), ficar (to stay) and viver (to live) followed by gerund according to the multissystemic approach to language, which is located on the board of cognitive-functionalist theory. With this work, we intend to contribute to a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in verbal change, since the perspective adopted here is to analyze the systems of the Lexicon, Semantics, Syntax and Discourse and its processes Lexicalization, Semanticization, Grammaticalization and Discursivization in order to provide a rather complete analysis. Letters written by newspapers readers as well as personal letters from nineteenth and twentieth century's have been analyzed in order to identify sintaticization and semanticization of verbs as full verbs, functional verbs or auxiliary verbs, in the case of gerund constructions (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/03593-4 - Sintaticization and semanticization of the verbal periphrasis andar, continuar, ficar, viver + gerund in the history of paulista Portuguese
• Grantee: Flávia Orci Fernandes
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master