Grammatical change of afinal word and its grammaticalization in the contrast between linguistic varieties: Portuguese of Brazil and Portugal / Mudança gramatical da palavra afinal e sua gramaticalização num contraste entre variedades linguísticas: português do Brasil e de Portugal

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

This research presents a study on the grammatical change that has been affecting the word "afinal". For this we initiate our searches in synchronous and etymologic dictionaries; that has promoted to recognize the enlargement of the functional spectrum of this item. After that, we collected data from the spoken language and, in face of the scarce number of occurrences; we decided to deal with the written language. Guided by the theoretical basis that derives from Heine, Claudi &Hünnemeyer (1991), we recognize a unidirectional way, followed by the item "AFINAL", as well as we could recognize some functional standards associated to the use of this item. We also, verify that the routes covered by the functional standards chaining may assume a movement from the left to the right - resulting in grammaticalization, and also from the right for the left, resulting in lexicalization.

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adverb advérbio grammaticalization unidirecionalidade funcionalismo gramaticalização unidirecionality lexicalização functionalism lexicalization

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