Abstract
The aim of the research is to analyze the non-prototypical intensifying constructions in Brazilian Portuguese (such as puta da vida, roxo de raiva, vermelho de ódio, vermelho de vergonha, bonito pra burro, feio pra caramba, morto de fome, podre de bêbado, lindo de morrer, feio de doer, and so on), in a panchronic perspective, based on the theoretical assumptions of the constructional appr…