A construção transitiva comitativa sob a ótica da linguística funcional centrada no uso

Abstract

In this work, a study is made about the Comitative Transitive Construction (CTC). The grammatical tradition pays little attention to the relative/oblique transitive verb. The exception is Rocha Lima (2011). At the border between the traditional grammar and Linguistics, there are Bechara (2009) and Azeredo (2009), who make a brief presentation on the relative complement. Regarding this type of verb and its complement in its linguistic-based grammars, Mateus et al. (2003) and Castilho (2012) denominate them, respectively, as oblique transitive verb and oblique complement, examining semantic and morphosyntactic aspects related to them. In separate approaches in the linguistic field, there are the works of Souza (2011), Jarnalo (2014) and Lerner (2015). In all of them, the relative transitive verb and / or the relative complement are seen emphasizing only their semantic-syntactic aspects. Moving away, in part, from these approaches, the sentence with a relative / oblique transitive verb (including its complement) is treated here in a constructional perspective. For this, the theoretical-methodological apparatus of Functional Linguistics Centered on the Use of constructionist bias is used, as found in Furtado da Cunha, Bispo e Silva (2013), Rosário and Oliveira (2016), among others. The analysis material consists of database from Corpus Discurso e Gramática in its versions from Rio de Janeiro (VOTRE; OLIVEIRA, 1995), Rio Grande (VOTRE; OLIVEIRA, 1996), Juiz de Fora (VOTRE; OLIVEIRA, 1997) and Natal (FURTADO DA CUNHA, 1998). The corpus data indicates that the oblique transitive construction with the preposition with presents a certain semantic variety related to the extension of its basic meaning. In addition, its complement seems to exhibit different degrees of syntactic integration with the verb which it is linked to as well as diverse inheritance links. These phenomena are motivated by cognitive (such as chunking, analogization, metonymization and metaphorization) and discoursiveinteractional motivations (among them, perspective, intersubjectivity and pragmatic inference).