The grammaticalization process of the causal construction [por + conta + de] under the perspective of usage-based functional linguistics: a diachronic study

• Main Author: Cleide da Silva Farias Santiago
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados 2017-03-01
• Series: Raído
• Subjects: Construção Causal. Linguística Funcional Centrada no Uso. Gramaticalização.
• Online Access: http://ojs.ufgd.edu.br/index.php/Raido/article/view/5055

Studies based on the use of language have found that the choices of certain real situation in resource talks stem from semantic-cognitive and discursivepragmatic motivations in various contexts of interaction. This article aims to make a data collection for the purpose of identification of the word of the grammaticalization process account the construction condition with partiality because of because from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. The research has the theoretical basis of Linguística Funcional Centrada no (LFCU) pursuant characterized by Furtado da Cunha et al. (2013). The database used was the Corpus do Português, who has speech and writing samples. The research presents a quantitative bias approach and also a character and descriptive.