Conditionality as a conceptual domain

Authors

  • Taísa Peres de Oliveira Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Departamento de Educação
  • Flávia Bezerra de Menezes Hirata-Vale Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Departamento de Letras

Keywords:

functionalism, parameters of conditionality, conditional construction, categorization.

Abstract

This paper offers a wide-range discussion about conditional construction in Portuguese. Based on the parameters of the conditionality basic meaning, the discussion shows how this category is organized not only in terms of its prototypical nucleus but also how it relates to non-prototypical members. The assumptions made here are based on functionalist and cognitivist principles following Bybee (2010) and Dancygier (1998). The analysis suggests that conditionality may be conceived as a complex category that covers forvery different patterns of constructions.

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Published

2017-03-28

How to Cite

Oliveira, T. P. de, & Hirata-Vale, F. B. de M. (2017). Conditionality as a conceptual domain. DELTA: Documentação E Estudos Em Linguística Teórica E Aplicada, 33(1). Retrieved from https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/delta/article/view/32330

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 1 (2017): Especial: Linguística Funcional

Section

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