Um estudo da idiomatização da construção modal com o verbo dar no Português do Brasil

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate the process of grammaticalization of the Modal Construction with the verb dar (to give) in Brazilian Portuguese: “they will remove the tumor that is pressuring the heart, and it will give to read (it will be possible to read) your name written there”. Following the Ariadne’s thread braided from the conceptions of language, cognition, grammar and use provided for Cognitive Linguistics, the Construction Grammar and the Usage Based Models of Language, we conducted a study of frequencies over data of the language in use: speech data and written data from interactions on-line via Internet and we also collected samples from different discourse data. The study demonstrates that the modal construction with dar (to give) is a new construction, for the minority occurrence of such modal construction especially in written discourse. Moreover, the survey shows that the Root Modality is predominant. It was also possible to follow the paths of the ongoing construction’s grammaticalization process.