How to build a construcional network: a methodological proposal applied to Brazilian Portuguese clausal complementation

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2022.61432

Keywords:

Clausal complementation. Constructional network. Multidimensional scaling.

Abstract

Semantic class-based hierarchical networks lie at the heart of Usage-based Construction Grammar. As a result, a methodological challenge emerges: how to identify semantic classes that define middle-level cons­tructions in a constructional network? This paper aims at demonstrating a specific method designed to meet this challenge. In order to do so, the method is applied to Brazilian Portuguese clausal complementation constructions. The proposed method involves the mapping of lexically specific constructions in an Exemplar Theory fashion, the identification of emerging semantic class and the verification of the resulting network by means of Multidimensional Scaling.

Author Biographies

Diogo Pinheiro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Professor Adjunto da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Lotado no Departamento de Linguística e Filologia, atua nos cursos de Graduação em Letras e Fonoaudiologia. Membro titular do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística da UFRJ. Membro do LinC - Laboratório de Linguística Cognitiva. Tem Mestrado em Língua Portuguesa e Doutorado em Linguística pela UFRJ.

Dayanne de Oliveira Ximenes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

É Graduada em Pedagogia – Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará. Professora de Educa­ção Infantil. Pesquisadora do Gepei – Grupo de estudos e pesquisas em Educação Infantil – Iced/Ufopa. Publicou o capítulo Representação de professores sobre a inclusão de crianças pequenas com necessidades educacionais especiais em Santarém-PA no livro Pedagogia: lei­turas e vivências na formação, de H. Calixto e M. L. Colares, além de trabalhos em anais de eventos.

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Published

2022-03-17

How to Cite

Pinheiro, D., & Ximenes, D. de O. (2022). How to build a construcional network: a methodological proposal applied to Brazilian Portuguese clausal complementation. MATRAGA - Journal Published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio De Janeiro State University (UERJ), 29(55), 77–93. https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2022.61432

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Vol. 29 No. 55 (2022): Miscelaneous

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Linguistic Papers

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