CONSTRUÇÕES CONDICIONAIS COM “DESDE QUE” NO PORTUGUÊS BRASILEIRO

Abstract

On this study, we aim to analyze how the connective desde que instances the conditionality in Brazilian Portuguese, based on the usage-based models in addition to cognitivists’ studies. The main purpose here is a classification and an investigation about the conditionality expression with desde que in the synchronicities 20th and 21st centuries. For that, Dancygier (1998) established analytical parameters and these ones help us to verify how desde que builds the conditional expression. These parameters are used as methodologic for characterizing aspects and shades about the conditional category, based on morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of this construction, differing it than the prototypical others connectives of the conditionality network. Therefore, we analyzed the parameters of conditionality also, such as Dancygier’s propose: (i) causality; (ii) non-assertiveness; (iii) predition; (iv) epistemic distancing; and (v) the creation of mental spaces. Still destined to the analysis of desde que’s conditionals, we add the syntactic ordering of phrases and the temporal reference relationship established between the core phrasing and the conditional phrasing, for organizing the aspects about this paring of structure and meaning. According to the non-synonymy conceptual (Goldberg, 2005) and functionalist studies about categorial nuances, this research parts from the affirmation that the selection and classification of adverbial connectors are extremely diffuse and complex. Respectively, it not being equivalent amongst one another in the vast majority of cases, understanding that there are other ways to give quick yet different meaning between two linguistic structures. Considering in function and contextual nuances, conditional construction initiated by desde que cannot be equal the others shades’ conditional. Last, but not least, the category of connectives, or linking words cannot be easily delimited and there is possibility of great variation on the conceptual base of them. On this way, we consider the conditionality as a conceptual category that does specificities of each example associated with the conditional axis. On order of it, we collected the data through the online platform Corpus do Português (FERREIRA, DAVIES, 2006) in the contemporary synchronic time. The analysis is based on assumptions of functionalcognitive theories, such as Sweetser (1990); Sweetser; Dancygier (2005); Bybee (2010), among others; and also studies about the conditional constructions in Brazilian Portuguese, like essentially Oliveira (2008; 2014); Neves (1997; 2010); Hirata-Vale (2005, 2009, 2011). With that main goal, it count with four chapters, which we try to understanding how the functional systematization of conditional constructions organizes the conditionality on Portuguese of Brazil. In a way that, we hope to make it possible to have an ideia how, using especially conditional connectives, we could understand the category and how desde que emerges, creates and partakes in the conditionality branch in Brazilian-Portuguese.