A typology for purpose constructions in Portuguese
Abstract
Following Functional Discourse Grammar principles (Hengeveld & Mackenzie, 2008), the aim of this paper is to propose a typology for purpose constructions in Portuguese based centrally in the levels and layers that organize this model. The typology to be proposed here takes into consideration a description of different uses of purpose constructions in Portuguese in terms of functional and formal properties: functional properties regard aspects of the formulation of these constructions (such as level and layer of formulation of the purpose construction); as for formal properties, this paper looks to questions relating the morphosyntactic encoding of purpose constructions (as their encoding layer). Based on typologies proposed by Dias (2001), Antonio (2011), Neves (2011), Fontes (2016) and Moreira (2022), this paper investigates real usage occurrences of purpose construction, from Corpus do Português (Davies & Ferreira, 2016), and distinguishes five types of purpose constructions, two from Representational Level (eventive and epistemic) and three from Interpersonal Level (motivation, orientation and interpersonal modifiers). These different types of purpose constructions, distinguished according to the layers of Interpersonal and Representational levels, are encoded, in morphosyntactic terms, in different patterns of clause combination: while representational constructions are cases of subordination, interpersonal constructions are cases of or co-subordination or extra-clausality.
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