Estudos funcionalistas no Brasil

The paper presents a comprehensive survey of functional research in Brazil, from the very beginning, reaching research groups and individual researchers, carefully distinguishing the theoretical approaches followed. An extensive list of published work is added.

Um estudo das modalidades deôntica e volitiva nos discursos do presidente Lula

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Análise funcional dos evidenciais e modalizadores no discurso da autoajuda da saúde

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Multifuncionalidade e gramaticalização de Já no português falado culto

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE

Um estudo funcional da perífrase conjuncional 'Desde que' sob a ótica da gramaticalização

Pós-graduação em Linguística e Língua Portuguesa - FCLAR

Polissemia nos usos do verbo ter: arbitrariedade ou iconicidade?

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE

Gramaticalização e (inter)subjetivização na modalização em português: um estudo de pode ser

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

A relação adverbial temporal na lusofonia sob a perspectiva da gramática discursivo-funcional

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE

Integração conceptual na descrição de fenômenos gramaticais do português

Functional grammar currently has a great acceptance in linguistics, mainly because it can enlighten grammatical facts' motivation in the structure of a text. From its emergence, the tradition of studying grammar by grammar has come to an end. Demonstrative pronouns, for instance, have begun to be viewed as efficient tools of text cohesion, used to resume terms from previous clauses. This task, however, ends up leaving an endless trail of black boxes. How is it possible to explain the origin of demonstratives' anaphoric functioning if they are originally used to indicate things or people relative to the interlocutors' spatial position? This work aims at showing that Cognitive Linguistics arises just as an option for opening those black boxes. This article focuses on one of its themes - the conceptual blending theory - to support this possibility. Firstly, it was necessary to integrate the cognitive model into the complexity theory, according to Bybee (2010) and Castilho (2009), who understand language as a complex adaptive system. After that, a brief updated description on the conceptual blending theory is made and its application in some grammatical facts of the Brazilian Portuguese language is suggested under the morphological and syntactic levels.

A manifestação das diferentes modalidades no emprego do verbo auxiliar poder em português e em espanhol: análise do discurso de autoajuda

This paper aims to investigate the behavior of the modal verb poder as an auxiliary verb in text written in both two Romance languages, Brazilian Portuguese and Iberian Spanish. This research follows a functionalist language approach, more precisely the Dutch Functional Grammar tradition, based on the modality classification proposed by Hengeveld (2004). This author considers two main criteria: target of evaluation, and semantic domain of evaluation. Considering this classification, we analyze the use of the auxiliary verb poder in a corpus of self-help discourses, which currently enjoy enormous popularity in various parts of the world. Although in Portuguese the auxiliary verb poder is essentially an epistemic modal (cf. Neves 1999-2000) —which, according to the Hengeveld (2004), corresponds to the event-oriented epistemic modality—. However, our analysis show that, given the essentially optimistic nature of the discourse analyzed, the self-help discourse, the previously mentioned modal verb (poder) behaves predominantly as a participant-oriented facultative modal. This result demonstrates the importance of considering the context of occurrence of the verb poder in order to evaluate the effects of meaning associated with its use.

Interrogativas encaixadas vs. relativas sem antecedente: contribuições da Gramática Discursivo-Funcional

This work deals with the distinction between embedded questions and headless relatives, that was already pointed out as problematic in several studies based on generative approach. The purpose is to examine to what extent functional aspects, as proposed by the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008) to describe the two types of clauses can contribute to the explanation of the differences and similarities between them. Based on representative occurrences of spoken Brazilian Portuguese, we demonstrated that the approach of Functional Discourse Grammar provides important parameters for defining the nature of these two types of clauses, in both formal and functional (semantic-discursive) terms, contributing thus to the existing proposals for the distinction between these clauses.

Parataxe e Tradição Discursiva: orações paratáticas justapostas em sincronias pretéritas do português

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)