Exploring the productivity and systematicity of Recipient passives in Mozambican Portuguese
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https://doi.org/10.12957/soletras.2023.73486Palabras clave:
recipient passives, Mozambican Portuguese, ditransitives, pluricentricity, construal.Resumen
This study aims to explore and provide a detailed description of the construction known as “Dative passives” or Recipient passives in the Mozambican variety of Portuguese, in the framework of Cognitive Grammar (LANGACKER, 1991, 2008) and Construction Grammar (GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006). Particular attention will be paid to the complex semantic categories of passive and ditransitive structures in order to identify which of their conceptual aspects lay behind the emergence of Recipient passives. By means of a corpus study based on the Corpus do Português (DAVIES, 2016), it will be shown that this construction is found with a wide range of verbs of transfer, thus showing increasing signs of productivity, and that the variation displayed by Mozambican Portuguese is not random but systematic, occurring in well-defined semantic contexts. Furthermore, adopting a constructional approach to the variation at hand provides a strong argument against considering Recipient passives as derived from Double Object constructions, a claim often made in the literature (GONÇALVES 1990, 1996, 2010). By doing so, this study also offers to delve deeper into the pluricentricity of Portuguese, a tendency that is furthermore bound to increase in the near future (SOARES DA SILVA, 2022).
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