From sign to construction: the Saussurean legacy and the constructionist approaches of grammar

• Autor(a) principal: Marques, Priscilla Mouta
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Alonso, Karen Sampaio, Pinheiro, Diogo Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Gragoatá
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33553
• topic: linguistic sign; system; constructions; constructional network; Construction Grammar; signo linguístico; sistema; construção gramatical; rede construcional; Gramática de Construções.

The importance of Ferdinand de Saussure’s propositions, presented in the Course in General Linguistics (CLG), to the establishment of the basis of so-called Modern Linguistics is a consensus among linguists. Nevertheless, there is none or just a few recognition of the echoes of the grammatical reflections presented in CLG on the theoretical model of Construction Grammar (CG), developed in the United States at the end of the twentieth century. Therefore, this article aims: (i) to show how CG offers an eminently Saussurean way to overcome the gap left by the CLG regarding the treatment of syntactic creativity and (ii) to evaluate the convergence - and eventual divergences - between the CG and the grammar model outlined in the CLG. We expect to contribute to a reappraisal of the extension of Saussure’s legacy on contemporary grammatical theorization, recognizing him as an (unlikely?) precursor of Construction Grammar. ---DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.2017n44a1022