Polarity, Intensity and Mismatch: a Superlative Construction of Absolute States

• Autor(a) principal: Miranda, Neusa Salim
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Machado, Patrícia Miranda
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Linha D'Água (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/article/view/77940
• topic: Gramática das construções; Morfologia; Desencontro; Polaridade; Construção morfológica; Construction Grammar; Morphology; Mismatch; Polarity; Morphological Construction.

Assuming the sociocognitive and constructionist perspective taken by Cognitive Linguistic and by the Models of Use from the Construction Grammar, this work aims at investigating the mismatched feature of a construction, here called as Superlative Synthetic Construction of Absolute States (SSCAS). It is a morphological construction built from the integration of a chore which refers to a non-gradable absolute state (desempregada, casada, grávida / unemployed, married, pregnant) with a superlative scale operator (-íssimo/a – very). The result of this integration is types such as: desempregadíssima, casadíssima, gravidíssima, formadíssima. The configuration of SSCAS points to the mismatch phenomenon (FRANCIS & MICHAELIS, 2000; TRAUGOTT, 2007; TRAUGOTT, 2006; GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006), due to the fact that it makes clear the incompatibilities between the formal-semantic properties of the units which integrate this pattern – the superlative affix -íssimo – and the lexical item graduated by it. The incompatibility of this construction is approached from the polar relations of contrariety and contradiction, as they were described by Israel (2004).