L’objectif général de la présente thèse est d’évaluer dans quelle mesure la grammaire des verbes, aussi appelée complémentation verbale, peut être basée sur l’usage de la langue. La linguistique de l’usage (usage-based approach) constitue un récent changement de paradigme dans les sciences du langage, qui défend l’idée que la grammaire est un inventaire dynamique d’unités symboliques qui émergent et sont constamment redéfinies par l’usage de la langue. En adoptant une approche constructionnelle de la complémentation verbale et sur la base de données de l’anglais, nous traitons la question de la relation entre la grammaire des verbes et leur usage à trois niveaux d’organisation.Au niveau des verbes, nous comparons des résultats expérimentaux à des données de corpus, et trouvons que les plus fréquentes valences d’un verbe sont traitées plus facilement, ce qui montre que la valence est basée sur l’usage. Au niveau des constructions, nous montrons que, dans le cas de la construction conative, il est possible de formuler le sens d’une construction sur la base du sens des verbes en se plaçant au niveau de classes sémantiques, mais moins facilement au niveau le plus abstrait. Nous considérons ceci comme une preuve supplémentaire de l’importance des schémas de bas niveau sur les généralisations abstraites. Au niveau des alternances, nous suggérons que la productivité verbale peut être basée sur des relations d’alternances. Nous montrons que l’alternance dative présente une asymétrie en productivité, et que cette asymétrie peut être expliquée par des différences correspondantes en termes du nombre de verbes utilisés dans chaque construction. / The general goal of this thesis is to investigate to what extent the grammar of verbs, also called argument realization, can be based on linguistic usage. The usage-based approach is a recent paradigm shift in linguistics which takes the view that grammar is a dynamic inventory of symbolic conventions that emerges through, and is likewise shaped by, actual language use. Adopting a constructional approach to argument structure and on the basis of English data, we address the question of the usage basis of argument realization at three levels of organization.At the level of verbs, we compare experimental results to usage data, and find that more frequent valency patterns of a verb are processed more easily. These findings provide evidence for the usage basis of valency. At the level of constructions, we show that, in the case of the conative construction, it is possible to formulate constructional generalizations on the basis of verbal meaning at the level of semantically defined verb classes, but not so easily at the most abstract level. We take this as further evidence of the importance of lower-level schemas over broad generalizations. At the level of alternations, we present usage-based evidence that productivity can be based on alternation relations. We report that the dative alternation displays a productivity asymmetry, and we show that these differences can be explained by corresponding asymmetries in type frequencies.

This project provides a detailed examination and critique of current philosophical, linguistic, and cognitive accounts of first language acquisition. In particular, I focus on the concept of "innate" and how it is embraced, marginally utilized, or abandoned altogether in efforts to describe the way that a child comes to be a competent user of a language. A central question that naturally falls out of this general inquiry is therefore what exactly is supposed to be "innate," according to various theories? Philosophically, the theory of innate ideas put forth to explain human learning has existed for centuries and hence, this thesis as it relates to language is discussed. The revival of nativism by linguists like Chomsky is thus a central theme of the first chapter. Universal Grammar and the various arguments for it are closely scrutinized, and I close this chapter with what I take to be the commitments of linguistic nativism, how its proponents conceive of "innate," and several possible objections to the arguments they put forth. Just as the theory of innate ideas has had its contesters throughout the history of philosophy, so too have linguists and cognitive scientists rejected Universal Grammar and other forms of linguistic nativism. Thus, the second chapter presents several of these alternative explanations of language acquisition. Namely, I divide the chapter into three sections, Usage-Based Linguistics, Emergentism, and Sociolinguistic Acquisition, as it is my suggestion that most of the anti-UG attacks are levied from one of these three fields. In discussing the details of each, two distinctions become of particular concern: first, a large part of the differing conceptions of "innate" seem to hinge on what is meant by "learning" and "acquiring," and therefore second, a fine line between UBL and Emergentism can be drawn, a relationship that is otherwise conflated in the literature. Because chapter two involves a brief account of the way in which connectionist simulations are often utilized to model or represent language acquisition, particularly from an Emergentist perspective, chapter three begins by examining this feature of Emergentism in more detail. Due to its explanatory power, ability to be effectively modeled, and the evidentiary support found in neuroscience, Emergentism would appear to be the most tenable position to maintain regarding language acquisition. This possibility seems further strengthened when we take into account the neuroscientific data often used to bolster anti-nativist claims. Nevertheless, reflecting on the overarching concern of the project, regarding what is really meant by "innate," it is shown that this attack on nativism might stand on shakier ground than was originally assumed. Finally, based on these considerations, a case is made for an intermediary position, a theory of "Minimally Innate Ideas."

The work in this thesis presents and evaluates a number of strategies by which English-learning children might discover the major open-class parts-of-speech in English (nouns, verbs and adjectives) on the basis of purely distributional information. Previous work has shown that parts-of-speech can be readily induced from the distributional patterns in which words occur. The research reported in this thesis extends and improves on this previous work in two major ways, related to the constructional status of the utterance contexts used for distributional analysis, and to the way in which previous studies have dealt with categorial ambiguity. Previous studies that have induced parts-of-speech from word distributions have done so on the basis of fixed “windows” of words that occur before and after the word in focus. These contexts are often not constructions of the language in question, and hence have dubious status as elements of linguistic knowledge. A great deal of recent evidence (e.g. Lieven, Pine & Baldwin, 1997; Tomasello, 1992) has suggested that children’s early language may be organized around a number of lexically-specific constructional frames with slots, such as “a X”, “you X it”, “draw X on X”. The work presented here investigates the possibility that constructions such as these may be a more appropriate domain for the distributional induction of parts-of-speech. This would open up the possibility of a treatment of part-of-speech induction that is more closely integrated with the acquisition of syntax. Three strategies to discover lexically-specific frames in the speech input to children are presented. Two of these strategies are based on the interplay between more and less frequent words in English utterances: the more frequent words, which are typically function words or light verbs, are taken to provide the schematic “backbone” of an utterance. The third strategy is based around pairs of words in which the occurrence of one word is highly predictable from that of the other, but not vice versa; from these basic slot-filler relationships, larger frames are assembled. These techniques were implemented computationally and applied to a corpus of child-directed speech. Each technique yielded a large set of lexically-specific frames, many of which could plausibly be regarded as constructions. In a comparison with a manual analysis of the same corpus by Cameron-Faulkner, Lieven and Tomasello (2003), it is shown that most of the constructional frames identified in the manual analysis were also produced by the automatic techniques. After the identification of potential constructional frames, parts-of-speech were formed from the patterns of co-occurrence of words in particular constructions, by means of hierarchical clustering. The resulting clusters produced are shown to be quite similar to the major English parts-of-speech of nouns, verbs and adjectives. Each individual word token was assigned a part-of-speech on the basis of its constructional context. This categorization was evaluated empirically against the part-of-speech assigned to the word in question in the original corpus. The resulting categorization is shown to be, to a great extent, in agreement with the manual categorization. These strategies deal with the categorial ambiguity of words, by allowing the frame context to determine part-of-speech. However, many of the frames produced were themselves ambiguous cues to part-of-speech. For this reason, strategies are presented to deal with both word and context ambiguity. Three such strategies are proposed. One considers membership of a part-of-speech to be a matter of degree for both word and contextual frame. A second strategy attempts to discretely assign multiple parts-of-speech to words and constructions in a way that imposes internal consistency in the corpus. The third strategy attempts to assign only the minimally-required multiple categories to words and constructions so as to provide a parsimonious description of the data. Each of these techniques was implemented and applied to each of the three frame discovery techniques, thereby providing category information about both the frame and the word. The subsequent assignment of parts-of-speech was done by combining word and frame information, and is shown to be far more accurate than the categorization based on frames alone. This approach can be regarded as addressing certain objections against the distributional method that have been raised by Pinker (1979, 1984, 1987). Lastly, a framework for extending this research is outlined that allows semantic information to be incorporated into the process of category induction.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-07-19T13:59:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 3655935 bytes, checksum: c32c80be0b5d66b04eb2ca7b1e59f308 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-19T13:59:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 3655935 bytes, checksum: c32c80be0b5d66b04eb2ca7b1e59f308 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This dissertation points out how the appearances of the neologisms in a language, by lexicalization, can contribute to enrichment and updating of the lexicon of the same language. Therefore, it looked for: (i) expose the main concepts about lexicon, neologism and lexicalization, based on the Usage-Based Linguistics (UBL), (ii) it presents 13 lexical items selected from the digital corpus and (iii) present the real relevance of the lexicalization for the formation of new words, for to understand how this affects/changes the multi-system. The corpus used was the one of the Project AC/DC: corpo Corpus Brasileiro, which has about one billion words employed in the most varied use contexts. For the fundamentation of the dissertation, some scholars were consulted, among them we highlight: Martelotta (2011), Gonçalves (2011), Contiero and Ferraz (2014), Correia and Almeida (2012), Carvalho (2009a), Biderman (1981), Câmara Jr. (2011), Pontes-Ribeiro (2007), Castilho (2003a; 2003b; 2008), Cunha (2011), Mendes and Seabra (2006), Ferraz (2006; 2007) and Fortunato (2008). The methodology consists in three stages: a) select of lexical elements samples in the corpus, b) extraction of this samples and compilations of them in tables and c) analyses of collected data. The results revealed that some of the 13 lexicalized words/neologisms, possibly, appeared to fulfill an existing space of linguistic signs in the multi-system, others acquired new meanings when used in new contexts of use and many others are in process of disappearance. The frequency of use was determining in the change of meaning. / Esta dissertação aponta como o surgimento dos neologismos em uma língua, pela lexicalização, pode contribuir para o enriquecimento e atualização do léxico desta mesma língua. Deste modo, buscou-se: (i) expor os principais conceitos sobre léxico, neologismo e lexicalização, com base na Linguística Centrada no Uso (LCU), (ii) apresentar 13 itens lexicais selecionados a partir do corpus digital e (iii) discutir a relevância da lexicalização para a formação de novas palavras, para entender como isso afeta/altera o multissistema. O corpus utilizado foi o Projeto AC/DC: corpo Corpus Brasileiro, que contém cerca de um bilhão de palavras empregadas nos mais variados contextos de uso. Para a fundamentação da dissertação, alguns estudiosos foram consultados, entre os quais se destacam: Martelotta (2011), Gonçalves (2011), Contiero e Ferraz (2014), Correia e Almeida (2012), Carvalho (2009a), Biderman (1978; 1981), Câmara Jr. (2011), Pontes-Ribeiro (2007), Castilho (2003a; 2003b; 2008), Cunha (2011), Mendes e Seabra (2006), Ferraz (2006; 2007) e Fortunato (2008). A metodologia consistiu em três etapas: a) coleta de amostras de itens lexicais no corpus, b) extração dessas amostras e compilação em tabelas e c) análise dos dados coletados. Os resultados revelaram que alguns dos 13 neologismos/palavras lexicalizadas, possivelmente, surgiram para preencher um vazio de signos linguísticos no multissistema, outros adquiriram novos sentidos ao serem empregados em novos contextos de uso e outros tantos estão em processo de desaparecimento. A frequência de uso foi determinante para a mudança no sentido.

This paper offers an inductive, exploratory study on the role of input and individual differences in the early code-mixing of bilingual children. Drawing on data from two German-English bilingual children, aged 2–4, we use the traceback method to check whether their code-mixed utterances can be accounted for with the help of constructional patterns that can be found in their monolingual data and/or in their caregivers’ input. In addition, we apply the tracebackmethod to checkwhether the patterns used by one child can also be found in the input of the other child. Results show that patterns found in the code-mixed utterances could be traced back to the input the children receive, suggesting that children extract lexical knowledge from their environment. Additionally, tracing back patterns within each child was more successful than tracing back to the other child’s corpus, indicating that each child has their own set of patterns which depends verymuch on their individual input. As such, these findings can shed new light on the interplay of the two developing grammars in bilingual children and their individual differences.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese - Agameton Ramsés Justino - 2018.pdf: 2861692 bytes, checksum: bd28c42c064c9a7535a55e9d6f5e9f5f (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-11-09 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás - FAPEG / We conceive language as a conceptual network of constructions, related by inheritance of form and meaning, and grammar ruled by syntactic-semantic patterns that instantiate in the uses of cognitive representations shared by speakers. Linguistic change, in this sense, is inherent to the functioning of the language, occurring in a gradient and radial manner and inseparable from the contexts of communication use. In this thesis, we study the grammatical construction que só, which acts as an intensifier in the assessments that the speakers make during the interaction. This grammatical construction is a focusing construct instantiated in the uses from the chunking of a focus marker (que) and a focusing adverb (só). Their different uses crystallize in the language three subschemas with contexts of different shape and direction: the focal subschema, the focal-intensifying subschema and the intensifying subschema. Our general objective is to characterize these subschemas, also evidencing their linkages to the more abstract schemes of the focus and to the scheme of intensification in Brasilian Portuguese. To do this study, we seek theoretical support in Cognitive Linguistics, from authors such as LAKOFF, 1987; LAKOFF and JOHNSON, 1980; LANGACKER, 1987; TAYLOR, 1995; FILLMORE, 1982; FILLMORE, KAY and O'CONNOR, 1988; FAUCONNIER, 1994; 1997; among others. We also sought guidance in the Constructional Grammar, considering LANGACKER, 2009; GOLDBERG, 1995; 2006; CROFT, 2001; CROFT and CRUISE, 2004; BYBEE, 2010; 2015; among others. And we still seek theoretical methodological support in Usage Based Linguistics from the works of DIEWALD, 2002; TRAUGOTT and DASHER, 2005; TRAUGOTT, 2008; MARTELOTTA, 2011; TRAUGOTT and TROUSDALE, 2012; 2013; DIESSEL, 2015; OLIVEIRA and ROSÁRIO, 2015; JUNIOR and ALONSO, 2016; CASSEB-GALVÃO, 2017; among others. Through synchronic analysis of data from different corpora (Corpus de Português, data collection on the web, Que Só, from Liedo Maranhão), we understand that the focusing construct que só starts in the comparative focusing subschema with a reference and emphasis function, within the scheme of the focusing constructs in PB. Some uses in this subschema present semantic ambiguity, forming a prefabricated grammatical construct with adverbial intensifying value. In a more abstract level of the uses of the focalization appears the intensifying focus subschema, belonging to the PB intensification scheme. The focusing constructs que só function in PB as a trigger for cognitive representations of measures of magnitude, with gradients in the abstraction of the senses crystallized by contexts of use. / Concebemos a língua como uma rede conceptual de construções, relacionadas por heranças de forma e sentido, sendoe a gramática regida por padrões sintático-semânticos que instanciam nos usos representações cognitivas compartilhadas pelos falantes. A mudança linguística, neste sentido, é inerente ao funcionamento da língua, ocorrendo de forma gradiente e radial e indissociável dos contextos de uso da comunicação. Nesta tese, estudamos a construção gramatical que só, a qual funciona como um intensificador nas avaliações que os falantes fazem durante a interação. Esta construção gramatical é uma construção focalizadora instanciada nos usos a partir do chunking de um marcador de foco (que) e um advérbio focalizador (só). Seus diferentes usos cristalizam na língua três subesquemas com contextos de forma e sentido diferentes: o subesquema focalizador, o subesquema focalizador-intensificador e o subesquema intensificador. Nosso objetivo geral é caracterizar esses subesquemas, evidenciando também suas vinculações aos esquemas mais abstratos da focalização e ao esquema da intensificação no PB. Para fazer esse estudo, buscamos respaldo teórico na Linguística Cognitiva, a partir de autores como (LAKOFF, 1987; LAKOFF e JOHNSON, 1980; LANGACKER, 1987; ); TAYLOR, 1995;); FILLMORE, 1982;); FILLMORE, KAY e O’CONNOR, 1988;); FAUCONNIER, 1994; 1997; dentre outros). Também buscamos orientação na Gramática das Construções, considerando ( LANGACKER, 2009; ); GOLDBERG, 1995; 2006; ); CROFT, 2001; CROFT e CRUISE, 2004; BYBEE, 2010; 2015; dentre outros). E ainda buscamos suporte teórico metodológico na Linguística Funcional Centrada no Uso a partir dos trabalhos de DIEWALD, 2002; TRAUGOTT e DASHER, 2005; TRAUGOTT, 2008; MARTELOTTA, 2011; TRAUGOTT e TrausdaleTROUSDALE, 2012; 2013; DIESSEL, 2015; OLIVEIRA e ROSÁRIO, 2015; JUNIOR e ALONSO, 2016; CASSEB-GALVÃO, 2017; dentre outros). Por meio de análise sincrônica de dados de diferentes coórpora (Corpus de Português; coleta de dados na web; livro Que Só, de Liedo Maranhão), entendemos que a construção focalizadora que só se inicia no subesquema focalizador comparativo, com função referencial e de ênfase, dentro do esquema das construções focalizadoras no PB. Alguns usos nesse subesquema apresentam ambiguidade semântica, formando uma construção gramatical pré-fabricada com valor adverbial intensificador. Num nível mais abstrato dos usos da focalização surge o subesquema focalizador intensificador, pertencente ao esquema da intensificação do PB. As construções focalizadoras que só funcionam no PB como um gatilho para representações cognitivas de medidas de grandeza, com gradiência na abstratização dos sentidos cristalizados pelos contextos de uso.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Michele Denise da Silva -2017.pdf: 2022591 bytes, checksum: 2a81b6996bd9a2573b62dde86be0d763 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-24 / This research is founded on the project “Rede de estudos da língua portuguesa ao redor do mundo”, headquartered at the Faculty of Letters of the Federal University of Goiás, and has as one of its objectives to provide subsidies for the promotion and teaching of Brazilian Portuguese from Results of analyzes of real uses of that language. In this context, we describe and analyze the pairing "um belo dia", from the theoretical perspective of LFCU, more specifically, the Construction Grammar. The central hypothesis is that the microconstruction "um belo dia" undergoes a process of change: from a more concrete use, active in the organization of the predication, until a more abstract use, functioning at the textual level, aiding in the macro-organization of the narrative. From this perspective it is understood that the language consists of cognitive, sociointeractional and cultural processes, and language is seen as a complex adaptive system with a fluid frame. Studies in the LFCU analyze and try to clarify the grammatical phenomena of the usage of the language and have as one of its theoretical contributions the theory of Constructions Grammar, which defines the grammatical constitution as a conceptual network, a system of cognitively interconnected entities (LANGACKER, 2008, TOMASELLO, 2010, TRAUGOTT, TROUDALE,2013) and language as a network of relationships that is organized in the use (TROUGOTT and TROUSDALE, 2013, CROFT, 2001, GOLDBERG, 2006). Suported on this theoretical conception, we present the results of the research that involves the uses of the microconstruction "um belo dia" ("a beautiful day") from a panchronic perspective. The corpora chosen for the research are o Corpus do grupo Discurso e Gramática (D&G), e o Corpus Fala Goiana. More specifically, the aim is to analyze the form and function of "a beautiful day", from the syntactic, morphological, phonological, semantic, pragmatic and speech-functional properties (CROFT, 2001) of this microconstruction, assuming that the uses detected in the corpora present different degrees of abstraction, indicating a construccionalizacion. The analyzes confirmed the hypothesis that the microconstruction "um belo dia" in its more abstracted use acts at the textual level, aiding in the macro-organization of the narrative, influencing the reception of the reader and its involvement in the discursive plot. / Esta pesquisa está vinculada ao projeto “Rede de estudos da língua portuguesa ao redor do mundo”, sediado na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal de Goiás, e tem como um de seus objetivos fornecer subsídios para a promoção e o ensino do português brasileiro a partir de resultados de análises de usos reais dessa língua. Nesse contexto, descrevemos e analisamos o pareamento “um belo dia”, a partir da perspectiva teórica da Linguística Funcional Centrada no Uso (LFCU), mais especificamente, da Gramática de Construções. A hipótese central é a de que a microconstrução “um belo dia” passa por um processo de mudança: de um uso mais concreto, atuante na organização da predicação, para um uso mais abstrato, funcionando no nível textual, auxiliando na macroorganização da narrativa. Na perspectiva da LFCU, entende-se que a linguagem é formada por processos cognitivos, sociointeracionais e culturais, e a língua é vista como um sistema adaptativo complexo, com uma estrutura fluida. Estudos na LFCU analisam e tentam esclarecer os fenômenos gramaticais da língua em uso e têm como um de seus aportes teóricos a teoria da Gramática de Construções, que define a constituição gramatical como uma rede conceitual, um sistema de entidades interconectadas cognitivamente (LANGACKER, 2008, TOMASELLO, 2010, TRAUGOTT; TROUSDALE, 2013) e a língua como uma rede de relações que se organiza no uso (TROUGOTT e TROUSDALE, 2013, CROFT, 2001, GOLDBERG, 2006). Ancorados nessa concepção teórica, apresentamos os resultados da pesquisa que envolve os usos da microconstrução “um belo dia” em uma perspectiva pancrônica. Os corpora eleitos para a pesquisa são o Corpus do Português, o Corpus do grupo Discurso e Gramática (D&G), e o Corpus Fala Goiana. Mais especificamente, tem-se como objetivo analisar o pareamento forma e função de “um belo dia”, a partir das propriedades sintática, morfológica, fonológica, semântica, pragmática e discurso-funcional (CROFT, 2001) dessa microconstrução, tendo como pressuposto que os usos detectados nos corpora apresentam diferentes graus de abstratização, indiciando uma construcionalização. As análises confirmaram a hipótese de que a microconstrução “um belo dia” em seu uso mais abstratizado atua no nível textual, auxiliando na macro-organização da narrativa, influenciando na recepção do leitor e no seu envolvimento na trama discursiva.

Submitted by Josimara Dias Brumatti (bcgdigital@ndc.uff.br) on 2017-03-30T17:44:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Milena Torres de Aguiar.pdf: 1266758 bytes, checksum: daad4f316304632c6467ebeadbf5f5c7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Josimara Dias Brumatti (bcgdigital@ndc.uff.br) on 2017-03-30T18:01:57Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Milena Torres de Aguiar.pdf: 1266758 bytes, checksum: daad4f316304632c6467ebeadbf5f5c7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-30T18:01:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Milena Torres de Aguiar.pdf: 1266758 bytes, checksum: daad4f316304632c6467ebeadbf5f5c7 (MD5) / Baseados na Linguística Funcional Centrada no Uso, estudamos a construção SNLoc atributiva em uso no português contemporâneo, que resulta da forte integração de suas subpartes – SN e pronome adverbial locativo. Numa perspectiva pancrônica, tomamos como base o Corpus do Português, para a análise das sincronias do século XIV ao XIX, e o Corpus Discurso & Gramática, para investigarmos os usos do século XX. Através desses corpora, realizamos um estudo prioritariamente qualitativo, mas também quantitativo, dos usos de SNLoc, e com esse levantamento, comprovamos a hipótese de que SNLoc atributiva é um membro marginal da classe dos nomes do português, resultante de construcionalização lexical. A mudança linguística de que resulta tal esquema se inicia em contextos atípicos, nos usos dêiticos mais referenciais, como os dêiticos físicos (“quando eu tinha três anos... eu caí... aí tá até a cicatriz aqui...”) e os dêiticos catafóricos (“eu pretendo fazer um outro curso aí na universidade”). Através de usos como os dêiticos anafóricos (“tem uma passagem assim maneira da cozinha pra sala... com um balcãozinho... que a gente vai fazer um bar ali”) e os dêiticos virtuais (“deixa o açúcar ficar moreno... aí bota o óleo... aí vai... bota a galinha... aí deixa a galinha lá...”), que configuram contextos críticos, sequências linguísticas em que surgem ambiguidades de sentido e forma, chega-se à construção SNLoc atributiva, em um contexto de isolamento. São casos como: “daí começaram a correr ... a correr ... a correr e o homem atrás dele ... daí depois ... ele pegou uma moça lá toda doida ...” Nessa construção há a cliticização do locativo, que se entrincheira ao SN, formando um novo esquema construcional da língua, no nível do léxico. Assim, o locativo unido ao SN assume um sentido de imprecisão e indefinição, distinto de seu sentido original, e juntos constituem a construção híbrida SNLoc atributiva, um novo par forma e sentido, um esquema de tipo endocêntrico, complexo, produtivo e parcialmente composicional, resultado de construcionalização lexical. A macroconstrução SNLoc atributiva, que tem uso recorrente no português contemporâneo, através de construtos de microconstruções, motivados por contextos semântico-pragmáticos específicos, tem produtividade maior na modalidade falada, em registros mais informais e em sequências de fundo narrativo. / Based on Usage-Based Linguistics, we study the SNLoc attributive construction in use in contemporary Portuguese, resulting from the strong integration of its subparts - SN and locative adverbial pronoun. In a panchronic perspective, it is taken as basis the Corpus of Portuguese, for the analysis of synchronicities of the fourteenth century to the nineteenth, and the Corpus Discurso & Gramática, to investigate the uses of the twentieth century. Through these corpora, we carried out a primarily qualitative, but also quantitative study of SNLoc uses, and with this survey, we confirmed the hypothesis that SNLoc attributive is a marginal member of the class of Portuguese names, resulting from lexical constructionalization. The linguistic change that results such scheme starts in untypical contexts, in deictic uses more references, such as physical deictic (“when I was three years old ... I fell ... so there is even the scar here...”) and cataphoric deictic (“I plan to do another course there at the university”). Through uses as anaphoric deictic (“there is a nice passageway from the kitchen to the living room ... with a small balcony ... that we will make a bar there”) and virtual deictic (“let the sugar turns brown ... then put the oil ... so on ... put the chicken ... then let the chicken there...”), which constitute critical contexts, linguistic sequences that arise ambiguities of meaning and form, it reaches to the SNLoc attributive construction, in an isolating context. There are cases like: “then started running ... running ... running and the man behind him ... then ... then he took a girl there totally crazy ... " In this contruction there is the cliticization of the locative, which entrenches to the SN, forming a new constructional scheme in the language, in the lexical level. Thus, the locative joint to the SN assumes a meaning of vagueness and uncertainty, distinct from its original meaning, and together constitute the hybrid SNLoc attributive construction, a new pair form and meaning, a endocentric type scheme, a complex, productive and partially compositional scheme, the result of lexical constructionalization. The SNLoc attributive macroconstruction, having recurrent use in contemporary Portuguese through constructs of microconstructions, motivated by semantic-pragmatic specific contexts, has increased productivity in spoken form, in more informal records and background narrative sequences.

Untersuchungsgegenstand der Dissertation sind sprachliche Strukturen, die aus einer Form des Verbs „machen“ und einer objektsprädikativen Adjektivphrase bestehen. Die Arbeit ist eingebettet in einen konstruktionsgrammatischen Rahmen, nach dem Sprache sich als strukturiertes Inventar von Konstruktionen (Form-Funktions-Beziehungen) beschreiben lässt. Ziele der Arbeit sind a) die korpusbasierte Ermittlung lexikalischer Kollokationen und Gebrauchstendenzen innerhalb der Zielstruktur sowie b) die systematische Beschreibung der damit verbundenen Form-Funktions-Beziehungen. Als Arbeitshypothese wurde übereinstimmend mit bisherigen Arbeiten zum selben sprachlichen Gegenstand eine kausative Bedeutung, also die Kodierung einer Ursache-Wirkung-Relation, angenommen. Da konstruktionsgrammatischen Ansätzen zufolge formale Unterschiede mit Unterschieden auf der Ebene der Funktion korrespondieren sollten, wurde empirisch untersucht, in welchen Fällen formale Unterschiede innerhalb der Zielstruktur tatsächlich systematisch zu unterschiedlichen funktionalen Interpretationen führen. Lexikalische Kollokationen innerhalb der Zielstruktur wurden statistisch anhand von Kollostruktionsanalysen („Covarying Collexeme Analysis“; vgl. Gries/Stefanowitsch, 2004) ermittelt. Zur Beschreibung der Bedeutung oder Funktion dienten Frame-semantische Beschreibungen englischer Verben aus dem FrameNet (vgl. Fillmore/Baker, 2010). Eine wesentliche Beobachtung besteht nun darin, dass entgegen der ursprünglichen Annahme keineswegs alle Vorkommen von „machen“ mit einer objektsprädikativen Adjektivphrase eine Ursache-Wirkung-Relation kodieren. Gerade die in der Kombination mit „machen“ hochfrequenten Adjektive korrelieren signifikant mit abweichenden, nicht im engeren Sinne kausativen, Interpretationen im Sinne der jeweils evozierten semantischen Frames. / This dissertation focuses on combinations of a form of the German verb “machen” with an adjective phrase which, according to a working hypothesis, is said to have a resultative reading. The work is grounded in a Construction Grammar approach, viewing language as a structured inventory of Constructions, i.e. form-function mappings. The aims are a) establishing lexical collocations and usage tendencies within these structures involving “machen” and a resultative adjective phrase, based on corpus studies, and b) describing systematically the relevant form-function mappings. As Construction Grammar approaches predict changes in function corresponding to changes in form, the formal collocations established according to aim a) are systematically analyzed with respect to their respective functional interpretations. The methods used involve a series of „Covarying Collexeme Analyses“ (cf. Gries/Stefanowitsch, 2004) to study lexical collocations within the given formal structure, and the application of frame semantic descriptions of English verbs, as found in FrameNet (cf. Fillmore/Baker, 2010), to the German structures found in the corpora. The results indicate that, contrary to the working hypothesis, a great number of “machen” plus adjective tokens does not lead to a causative or resultative interpretation. Especially the most frequent adjectives combined with “machen” exhibit a significant correlation with structures evoking different, not strictly causative, semantic frames.

Die korpuslinguistische Arbeit untersucht den Erwerb von Koselektionsbeschränkungen bei Lerner*innen des Deutschen als Fremdsprache in einem quasi-longitudinalen Forschungsdesign anhand des Kobalt-Korpus. Neben einigen statistischen Analysen wird vordergründig eine graphbasierte Analyse entwickelt, die auf der Graphmetrik Louvain-Modularität aufbaut. Diese wird für diverse Subkorpora nach verschiedenen Kriterien berechnet und mit Hilfe verschiedener Samplingtechniken umfassend intern validiert. Im Ergebnis zeigen sich eine Abhängigkeit der gemessenen Modularitätswerte vom Sprachstand der Teilnehmer*innen, eine höhere Modularität bei Muttersprachler*innen, niedrigere Modularitätswerte bei weißrussischen vs. chinesischen Lerner*innen sowie ein U-Kurven-förmiger Erwerbsverlauf bei weißrussischen, nicht aber chinesischen Lerner*innen. Unterschiede zwischen den Gruppen werden aus typologischer, kognitiver, diskursiv-kultureller und Registerperspektive diskutiert. Abschließend werden Vorschläge für den Einsatz von graphbasierten Modellierungen in kernlinguistischen Fragestellungen entwickelt. Zusätzlich werden theoretische Lücken in der gebrauchsbasierten Beschreibung von Koselektionsphänomenen (Phraseologie, Idiomatizität, Kollokation) aufgezeigt und ein multidimensionales funktionales Modell als Alternative vorgeschlagen. / The thesis located in corpus linguistics analyzes the acquisition of coselectional constraint in learners of German as a second language in a quasi-longitudinal design based on the Kobalt corpus. Supplemented by a number of statistical analyses, the thesis primarily develops a graph-based analysis making use of Louvain modularity. The graph metric is computed for a range of subcorpora chosen by various criteria. Extensive internal validation is performed through a number of sampling techniques. Results robustly indicate a dependency of modularity on language acquisition progress, higher modularity in L1 vs. L2, lower modularity in Belarusian vs. Chinese learners, and a u-shaped learning development in Belarusian, but not in Chinese learners. Group differences are discussed from a typological, cognitive, cultural and cultural discourse, and register perspective. Finally, future applications of graph-based modeling in core-linguistic research are outlined. In addition, some gaps in the theoretical discussion of coselection phenomena (phraseology, idiomaticity, collocation) in usage-based linguistics are discussed and a multidimensional and functional model is proposed as an alternative.