Expression of wishes in "se ao menos" insubordinate conditional constructions

Autor(es)

Comarim, Maria Julia Bernardo ; Hirata-vale, Flavia Bezerra de Menezes

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: ENTREPALAVRAS; v. 13, n. 1, p. 20-pg., 2023-01-01.

Resumo

Insubordinate constructions are, according to Evans (2007), those that present signs of subordination, but occur syntactically, semantically and pragmatically independently. Insubordinate conditional constructions (ICC) have a specific use, according to Hirata-Vale (2015), because they convey specific pragmatic values, such as the expression of wishes. In this article, we qualitatively analyze the ICC headed by "se ao menos", collected in the Corpus do Portugues. For this purpose, the analysis uses Dancygier's (1998) conditionality parameters and D'Hertefelt's (2015) functional classification of this type of construction in Germanic languages. In "se ao menos" ICC, only the parameters non-assertiveness and creation of hypothetical mental spaces are maintained. In these constructions, the value of desire emerges, formally marked by the imperfect subjunctive. It is concluded that there is a specialization of the ICC headed by "se ao menos" for the expression of the specific semantic value of desire, which, although it is related to conditionality, as it is in the hypothetical domain, differs from it, according to the categorization proposed by D 'Hertefelt (2015). (AU)

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