Expansion of the concessive system: the grammaticalization of apesar de (que) in the history of Portuguese

• Autor(a) principal: Longhin, Sanderléia Roberta
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Working Papers em Lingüística (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/workingpapers/article/view/74743

This paper discusses the grammaticalization process that generated the concessive periphrasis apesar de (que) in the history of Portuguese. Based on the founding nature of cognitive and pragmatic mechanisms, on the impact of contexts of use, and on a prototype of a concessive marker, our goal is to answer the following questions: which features of the noun pesar, combined with specific contexts, do help us explain the predisposition to this change? In which way do the concessive relations conveyed by apesar de (que) reflect facts of its constitution journey? Which relations may be apprehended with the gradual implementation of semantic change, and the structural composition as a complex junctive word? The research is carried out regarding the diachronic methodology ruled by polysemic patterns of pesar, with its respective distributive properties. The results provide a detailed chronological map of possible stages of change, in which the weight of the source word pesar, as a shell noun, is highlighted for syntactic and semantic generalizations and also for the action of the inferential processes that allowed concessive relations of cause denied and restrictive.