Orações causais introduzidas por conjunções de base participial

Abstract

This study has as the theme the causal clauses introduced by conjunctions of participial base, - “dado que”, “visto que”, “posto que” - in contemporary written Portuguese in Brazil. The analysis is based on the theory of Functional Grammar, in terms of Dik (1989.1997), Halliday (1985), Lehmann (1998), among others. It is proposed in this study to analyze the morphosyntactic description in causal clauses introduced by other conjunctions than the canonical conjunction "porque". It is considered as a parameter analysis of this research: the order in which the causal clauses occur in a greater frequency, the time and verbal tense of main clauses and the causal clauses and the co-referentiality of the subjects in the main clauses and the causal clauses. It is expected this work to obtain a description that demonstrates which is the preferred verbal tense of this clausal type. The data that comprise the corpus of this research were collected in the database of the corpus of Portuguese (www.corpusdoportugues.org). It is a corpus consisting of more than 45 million words, found in approximately 57 thousand written texts in different genres, and for this research only texts from Brazilian Portuguese of the twenty century were considered. It was observed in this study that the causal adverb clauses tend to be more independent of the associated main clause than other semantic types of adverb clauses, such as the temporal and conditional clauses. The analysis in online corpus reveals that the postposition is the most common order of the clause in causal relationship to the main clause as the temporal reference of the causal clauses, observed that the time and verbally most recurrent is the present tense of the indicative, for both core and clause for causal cluses. Analyzing the parameter co-referentiality subjects, it was observed that in the case of these sentences causal most of their subjects are not co-referential, this makes this type is less clausal integrated core clause, this is more independent.