ArReDia (Jul 2015)
The conjunction But and the adversity
Abstract
This work is part of a master's thesis analysis and presents a functionalist analysis that interfaces the Historical Linguistics and the Study of Variation and Linguistic Change. The objective is to analyze the concept of adversativity related to the behavior of the conjunction mas. Therefore, the combination use of examples were analyzed in different contexts relating them to the various concepts found in conjunction traditional grammars. The analysis showed that the definitions of the notions of adversativity available, based only on formal aspects, are not sufficient to properly classify conjunctions; that there is a fine line between adversativity and concessivity and that it often can not maintain this differentiation; that not only the adversative conjunctions set adversativity, but also other types of conjunctions; and lastly, that mas, considered adversative par excellence, have a heterogeneous pattern, not always setting the idea of opposition between sentences.
