Polarity, Intensity and Mismatch: a Superlative Construction of Absolute States

Authors

  • Neusa Salim Miranda Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
  • Patrícia Miranda Machado Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2236-4242.v27i1p117-137

Keywords:

Construction Grammar, Morphology, Mismatch, Polarity, Morphological Construction.

Abstract

Assuming the sociocognitive and constructionist perspective taken by Cognitive Linguistic and by the Models of Use from the Construction Grammar, this work aims at investigating the mismatched feature of a construction, here called as Superlative Synthetic Construction of Absolute States (SSCAS). It is a morphological construction built from the integration of a chore which refers to a non-gradable absolute state (desempregada, casada, grávida / unemployed, married, pregnant) with a superlative scale operator (-íssimo/a – very). The result of this integration is types such as: desempregadíssima, casadíssima, gravidíssima, formadíssima. The configuration of SSCAS points to the mismatch phenomenon (FRANCIS & MICHAELIS, 2000; TRAUGOTT, 2007; TRAUGOTT, 2006; GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006), due to the fact that it makes clear the incompatibilities between the formal-semantic properties of the units which integrate this pattern – the superlative affix -íssimo – and the lexical item graduated by it. The incompatibility of this construction is approached from the polar relations of contrariety and contradiction, as they were described by Israel (2004).

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Author Biographies

  • Neusa Salim Miranda, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

    Professora da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora – UFJF, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais

  • Patrícia Miranda Machado, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

    Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora – UFJF, Juiz de Fora – Minas Gerais

     

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Published

2014-06-30

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 1 (2014): Grammatical Theories: grammar, usage and linguistic variation in contexts of native and foreign language

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How to Cite

MIRANDA, Neusa Salim; MACHADO, Patrícia Miranda. Polarity, Intensity and Mismatch: a Superlative Construction of Absolute States. Linha D’Água, São Paulo, v. 27, n. 1, p. 117–137, 2014. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2236-4242.v27i1p117-137. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/linhadagua/article/view/77940.. Acesso em: 16 may. 2024.