Usos do aí: polissemia e gramaticalização em entrevistas orais e escritas

• Autor(a) principal: Paula, Vanessa Barbosa de
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal Fluminense (RIUFF)
• Texto Completo: https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/18619
• topic: Linguística; Polissemia; Gramática; Linguistics; Polysemy; Grammar; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

This research aims to analyze, based on North-American Functionalist Linguistic theoretical line, the process of grammaticalization of item aí (there) with focus on observation of the most common position in the noun phrase as well its uses. Our results indicate that the item aí is following a path of grammaticalization proposed by Heine et alii (1991) space > (time) > text, passing from spacial uses to temporal and textual uses. It was identified the term aí specifying indefinite noun phrases (composing a prefabricated combination (ERMAN e WARREN, 2000). The chosen corpus proceeded from the NURC-RJ project (12 dialogues between informer and researcher (samples of oral language)) and from the interviews published in Veja Magazine, from 2000 to 2008 (samples of written language). The frequency of different uses detected in this research, except when aí is specifying indefinite noun phrases, did not stand a great change in both oral and written language. In these corpora, It were frequent the item with a textual use what indicates that, in terms of the path proposed by Heine et alii (1991), this use would be in advanced stage of grammaticalization