Productivity of X-nte microconstructional patterns
a semantic analysis
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https://doi.org/10.47456/rctl.v18i40.45208Keywords:
X-NTE Construction, Semantic, Productivity, Usage-based Functional Linguistics, Construction GrammarAbstract
This article analyzes the productivity of X-NTE microconstructional patterns, based on their semantic properties. We present the senses that nouns in -nte can present in the contexts of use in which they occur and verify semantic properties related to the verbs recruited by these senses. We also propose an analysis of the statistical correlation between these properties, to highlight similarities/differences between the different microconstructional patterns. Our theoretical framework is Usage-based Functional Linguistics and Construction Grammar. Methodologically, this is a qualitative study, with quantitative support, and descriptive-explanatory objectives. The corpus is made up of 1501 occurrences of nouns in -nte taken from samples of written Portuguese between the 18th and 20th centuries. The results show that different semantic types of verbs and with different degrees of activity/agentivity can appear in the construction slot. The circumstantial and evaluative senses are the most semantically productive, while the agentive sense is a more coherent semantic pattern. There is a significant statistical correlation between the properties investigated, so that the data can be grouped into clusters, in which the agentive sense appears as a single cluster, in opposition to the circumstantial and evaluative senses.
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