Abstract
This project aims to analyze the functional motivations that govern the use of the pair não só... mas também (not only¿ but also) in spoken Portuguese based on the Functional Discouse Grammar model (Hengeveld & Mackenzie, 2008). From the point of view of traditional grammar, not only... but it is also considered an 'emphatic expression' of additive coordination (Bechara, 1999; Cunha and C…