Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:07:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 NubiaciraFO_TESE.pdf: 1083759 bytes, checksum: 527fca061b35e2637f0e7d19318b11ce (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-11-28 / This work analyzes deverbal nominalizations with the sufix dor in Brazilian Portuguese, under the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics, more specifically, the Construction Grammar. The aim is to determine the general features of interpretation that characterize this deverbal construction and its use in formal writing. Based on the cognitive assumption that grammatical structure is motivated, explained, and determined by the structure of cognitive patterns, created from our experience in the world, and by the communicative function of language, the dor deverbal is treated as a polysemic grammatical construction. In the composition of V+dor, the relation rootsuffix is focused, through a characterization of the syntactic-semantic nature of the verb and the values of the suffix. Among the different values conventionally related to the XDOR construction, the agentive is considered as the prototypical sense. The relation between the other values and the prototype is explained by cognitive abilities and discourse motivations. The deverbal construction X-DOR is also interpreted as a valency noun that, like an action nominal, retains the argument structure of the deriving predicate. It is also intended to demonstrate the textual function of this deverbal construction, as a device of information condensing and anaphoric recovery. The data were taken from Veja magazine and the approach is qualitative (explicative), with quantitative support / Neste trabalho, analisam-se nominaliza??es deverbais com o sufixo dor em portugu?s, sob o enfoque da Ling??stica Cognitiva, mais especificamente, da Gram?tica de Constru??es. O objetivo da pesquisa ? estabelecer os tra?os gerais de interpreta??o caracterizadores dessa constru??o deverbal e de seu uso na escrita formal. Com base no pressuposto cognitivista de que a estrutura gramatical ? motivada, explicada, determinada pela estrutura de modelos cognitivos, criados a partir da experi?ncia com o mundo, e pela fun??o comunicativa da linguagem, os deverbais em dor s?o tratados como uma constru??o gramatical poliss?mica. Focaliza-se, na composi??o de V+dor, a rela??o base-sufixo, caracterizando a natureza sint?tico-sem?ntica do verbo e os valores do sufixo. Dos diferentes valores convencionalmente estabelecidos da constru??o XDOR, considera-se o agentivo como o sentido protot?pico. A rela??o entre os demais valores e o prot?tipo ? explicada por habilidades cognitivas e por motiva??es discursivas. A constru??o deverbal X-DOR ? tamb?m interpretada como um nome valencial que, semelhante a um nominal de a??o, preserva a estrutura argumental do predicado derivante. Procura-se, ainda, demonstrar a fun??o textual dessa constru??o deverbal como recurso de condensa??o de informa??o e de retomada anaf?rica. Os dados analisados s?o da revista Veja e a abordagem ? de natureza qualitativa (explicativa), com suporte quantitativo