The phrasal pattern [trem + adjective] from the perspective of the Construction Grammar

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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-8412.2020v17n2p4809

Abstract

This paper examines the phrasal pattern [TREM + adjective], in 1000 occurrences of Twitter samples, aiming to ascertain - from the perspective of the Construction Grammar and the Language Based Model of Use and Grammaticalization - if this pattern is a construction of Brazilian Portuguese, applicable not only to objects, but also to people. Evidence was found that, in informal usage, the phrasal pattern [TREM + adjective] refers to people in contexts where there is no depreciation of the referent, as usually occurs with the name train alone, which attests to the hypothesis that it is of a Brazilian Portuguese construction.

 

Author Biographies

Aléxia Teles Duchowny, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Professor at Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Paola Santos Lima Soares, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Graduada em Letras. Mestranda do Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos da Faculdade de Letras da UFMG.

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2020-09-02

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2020)

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