Constructions with the gerund in Topic Position in Brazilian Portuguese Spontaneous Spech
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Gerund Constructions in Spontaneous Speech, Position within the Topic Unit, Mental Spaces, Syntactic-Semantic-Pragmatic Structure, Grammatical ConstructionsAbstract
This study investigates constructions with the gerund in the "mineira" variety of Brazilian Portuguese within the intonational/informational unit Topic, in context of use. As a methodological procedure, the mini-corpus of spontaneous speech from C-ORAL-BRASIL I (Raso; Mello, 2012) is employed. The study draws on theories within Cognitive Linguistics, particularly Mental Spaces Theory (Fauconnier, 1994; 1997), which explores the role of linguistic expressions in constructing unstable discourse domains. The hypothesis posits that such constructions either open or resumption specific mental spaces, influencing the thematic direction of the conversational discourse analyzed. The corpus revealed non-finite gerundial clauses (e.g., passando o tempo lá) referring to active information, and finite clauses (e.g., mas se tivesse fazendo qualquer raiva) associated with inactive information. Syntactically, these constructions exhibit varying degrees of dependence relative to the Comment following the Topic unit. Furthermore, gerund structures are form-meaning pairings, as proposed by Goldberg (1995; 2006), categorizing them as Grammatical Constructions. Pragmatically, they function as background scenarios, with an aspectual value of ongoing or presentified events, whose verbal tense may be present, past, future, or even timeless.
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