Cláusulas com para e sua multifuncionalidade

Abstract

In this study, we aim to describe the multifunctional behavior of the item para, traditionally classified as a preposition. The grammatical tradition includes this preposition among the connectors capable of introducing nonfinite final adverbial subordinate clauses. Mateus et alii (2003) declare it is possible to find this same item functioning as a relative pronoun in certain contexts, that is, starting a relative sentence (adjective in the traditional approach). Menezes (2003), in turn, affirms that para also functions as a starting point in completive structures, substantive in the traditional approach. The analyzed data were collected from cinematographic scripts, which are available at www.roteirodecinema.com.br, a website in which it is possible to access more than 380 scripts from national movies. Adopting a functional-discursive approach, we objective to verify, through the analysis of the data of the corpus, if it is functioning as: i) integral conjunction in substantive clauses; ii) relative pronoun in relative structures and iii) subordinative conjunction in circumstantial clauses. The theoretical contribution combines studies of different theoretical studies, such as Kury (1963), Bechara (1982), Thompson (1988), Azeredo (1990), Hopper (1991), Decat (2001, 2011), Poggio Et alii (2003), Menezes (2003), Cunha & Cintra (2008), Marques (2009), and Rodrigues (2010), just to name a few. We analyzed 55 feature films and 89 short films, collecting 3159 data and counting them manually. Out of the total, 1267 data functioned as circumstantial hypotatic clauses: 11 of them displayed consecutive semantic content, 6 allowed more than one reading, and 1250 had final semantic content. We found 1827 completive clauses, 10 relative clauses, and 55 detached clauses introducing final semantic content.