‘Indo direto ao assunto’ a configuração da construção com adjetivo adverbial de sentido qualitativo no português brasileiro contemporâneo

Abstract

This article aims to present the configuration of the adjective-adverb construction of qualitative meaning in contemporary Brazilian Portuguese. The theoretical perspective adopted was the Usage-Based Linguistics, according to which constructions emerge from use and are organized in a structured way in a constructional network that includes different levels of abstraction (TRAUGOTT; TROUSDALE, 2013; GOLDBERG, 2019). The data collected from Corpus do Português and C-Oral-Brasil I underwent a quali-quantitative analysis, centered on the observation of formal, semantic, discursive-pragmatic and contextual properties of the construction [V AA]Qualit. The results of this analysis indicated that this construction presents the following tendencies: formal pattern [V AA] – the adjective occurs postposed and adjacent to an intransitive verb or to a verb in intransitive use; meaning resulting from the combination of a material-type verb to adjectives of different semantic types; pragmatic restriction of exclusive informational focus; and occurrence in more informal and prototypically oral texts.

Keywords

• adjective-adverb
• qualitative adverbial construction
• usage-based linguistics
• construction grammar