A construção do tipo Foi Fez: uma abordagem funcionalista

Abstract

The present work has as its objective the study of the construction “Foi Fez” – henceforth FFC –, which was described and analysed by Rodrigues (2006, 2009) as a new constructional pattern in Brazilian Portuguese. Although the author‟s works contribute heavily to the analysis of the FFC, there are still gaps and important controversial questions to be debated. Despite discussing the theoretical status of grammaticalization in her doctoral thesis, Rodrigues (2006) did not succeed in finding recourse to state that FFC – as a construction – constituted a case of grammaticalization. This dissertation, therefore, aims to advance towards the proposal of Rodrigues (2006, 2009) in so far as we aim to corroborate the hypothesis that the FFC would represent a case of grammaticalization of a construction, wherein V1 would act within the scope of subjectivation (TRAUGOTT, 1995, 2010) in relation to V2 and to all prepositional content. For validating the established hypotheses – and considering that the FFC is more encountered in real situations of speech –, we opted for working on corpora that could recover the spoken modality. Even more specifically, we opted for working on corpora that could represent the dialect from Minas Gerais, that is: a) the corpus of the project “Fala Mineira”, constituted by Professor Nilza Barrozo Dias, at Federal University of Juiz de Fora; b) the corpus of the project “Mineirês: a construção de um dialeto”, constituted by Professor Jânia Martins Ramos, at Federal University of Minas Gerais; c) the corpus of the project “Corpus Conceição de Ibitipoca”, constituted by Professor Terezinha Cristina Campos de Resende.