Gramática e cognição: uma análise dos verbos chegar, querer e resolver

Abstract

This functionalist perspective research investigates the abstraction of the uses of verbs chegar, querer and resolver, considering that communicative and cognitive factors, such as metaphor and metonymy, interfere in grammar formation. Using data from the Corpus de Textos Orais do Português Santareno (Corpus of Oral Texts the Portuguese spoken in Santarém) - CTOPS, we observe that the verbs chegar, querer and resolver present, respectively, the following scale of abstraction: Spatial displacement (real physical -> virtual physical displacement) -> temporal displacement -> indication of numerical limit -> indication of idea -> conjunction; Desire to be willing -> to judgment -> imminent value to inceptive value; Solve to the change of state with subject [+ animated] -> state change with subject [- animated]. This scalarity leads us to conclude that grammatical structure is organized through cognitive mechanisms and that we express ourselves by transferring more concrete domains from our experiences to more abstract ones.