Abstract
The aim of this project is to research aspects of the historical constitution ofarticulated concessive constructions with mesmo que and mesmo se in the light oftheoretical assumptions of Grammaticalization (NARROG; HEINE, 2021;BYBEE, 2010, 2015). Our interest lies in studying distributional and semanticproperties of the adverbial source mesmo. We pose the hypothesis that usages ofmesmo as…