Frames e construções: a implementação do constructicon na FrameNet Brasil

Abstract

This dissertation presents the theoretical and methodological discussions supporting the implementation, in FrameNet Brasil (FN-Br), of a repertoire of constructions available online: the Brazilian Portuguese Constructicon. The initiative is a subproject of the FN-Br, which, in turn, aims at creating an online lexical resource for the same language, based on Frame Semantics and supported by corpus evidence. To implement the Constructicon, eleven constructions of the Para Infinitive Family were chosen. This choice is due to the fact that these constructions form a both formally and functionally motivated network in Brazilian Portuguese, besides evoking related frames – such constructions share the syntactic scheme [NP V AP/NP para (NP) Vinf] and the Purpose frame or some frame related to it. Along this work, we performed analyzes of these constructions and discussed whether they could be treated as a valence pattern, i.e. be annotated using the FrameNet methodology centered on lexical units; or be described in the Constructicon. It is proposed, therefore, a dialogue between the Goldberg proposal for the treatment of constructions and that designed by Fillmore et al. We also discuss how and to what extent argument structure constructions and verbal lexical units interact in terms of the frames they evoke. Finally, this dissertation establishes criteria which must be followed so as to determine whether a potential construction should be annotated as a valence pattern or accounted for in the Constructicon.