Abstract
Our overall aim is to study aspects of the historical constitution of the conjunctional periphrasis without the theoretical frame of grammaticalization (Traugott; Dasher, 2002; Heine; Kuteva, 2007; Bybee, 2015), considering that, in contemporary Brazilian Portuguese, this periphrasis expresses several meanings, including concession. Assuming that without results from a very productive - y…