From refraining-enunciative discourse marker to symptomatic interjection: constructional change in the post-paradigmatization of Espera Aí e Espera Lá

• Main Author: Rosa, Flávia Saboya da Luz
• Publication Date: 2021
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Fórum Linguístico
• Download full: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/79127

In this paper, we present the investigation of micro-constructions espera aí and espera lá. The objective is to catch theinterjective use of these expressions at a later stage of their establishment in the paradigm of the refraining-argumentative discoursemarkers. The theoretical basis of this work is linked to the so-called Usage-Based Functional Linguistics (adapted from BYBEE,2010), above all, it is related to the constructionist approach of Traugott and Trousdale (2013) and to the stages of linguistic changeby Diewald and Smirnova (2012). The research was carried out through the following corpora: Corpus do Português and CorpusTycho Brahe (13th to 20th century), Diário do Congresso Nacional (20th and 21st centuries) and digital collection of Veja magazine(20th and 21st centuries). It was found that the first constructionalizations of the refraining-argumentative discourse markersoccurred in the 19th century, with a functional change of espera aí and espera lá in the 20th century, when they also began to exercisean interjective function.