Exploring the productivity and systematicity of Recipient passives in Mozambican Portuguese

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ID21736375
AuthorsAlice Mevis (0000-0002-8613-3116, Universidade Católica Portuguesa), Augusto Soares Da Silva (0000-0001-7951-5194, Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
Year2023
Issue45
Publication date2023-04-28
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista SOLETRAS (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1519-7778 • E-ISSN: 2316-8838
PublisherUniversidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (PUBLISHER • BR)
DOI10.12957/soletras.2023.73486
OpenAlexW4367692726
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

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)

Brazilian Portuguese · Cognition · Cognitive grammar · Construction Grammar · Dative case · Grammar · Linguistics · Physics · Portuguese · Productivity · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence

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