Realizações morfológicas e adverbiais da imperfectividade no inglês

Ano: 2020 | Volume: 6 | Número: 1

Autores: M. G. Alves

Palavras-chave: Cartografia sintática, Imperfectividade, Realizações morfossintáticas

Resumo Português:

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar um editorial do jornal O Globo, tendo como base os estudos de Amossy (2018) sobre a argumentação no discurso. O trabalho conta, também, com as contribuições de Perelman e Olbrechts-Tyteca (2014) para a análise macrotextual e as de Ducrot e Anscombre (1983) para a análise microtextual da argumentação. A análise do texto destaca o recurso aos valores do auditório, ao pathos e ao ethos, bem como o uso de argumento de autoridade, de analogia e o emprego de determinados elementos linguísticodiscursivos, como operadores argumentativos e marcadores de pressuposição.

Resumo Inglês:

This work adopts the core assumptions of the Cartographic Enterprise (CINQUE, 1999; 2006) concerning the understanding of some adverbs as specifiers of functional projections and of the verbal phrase checking of features held in these projections. This article is intended as a general contribution to the study of the syntactic representation of imperfectivity in natural languages. Specifically, it is aimed at investigating the morphosyntactic realization of the following functional heads AsphabitualP, AspcontinuativeP, AspprospectiveP, AspdurativeP, Aspinchoative (I)P in American English, in the present and past tenses. The hypotheses at hand are a) the employment of progressive morphology in the present and past tenses is the prototypical one when it comes to the realization of the above-mentioned heads; and b) only Cinquean adverbs are employed to realize these heads. The methodology employed consists in the analysis of three-hour utterances of native speakers of American English. Both hypotheses were refuted. Different morphologies were chosen to realize some of these heads, namely habitual aspect (present and past simple, used to, would) and durative aspect (present and past simple). Periphrastic constructions were also chosen, such as the continuative one “to keep + verb” and the inchoative one “to start + verb”. It is also argued that some adverbs were employed to realize these heads, such as “today” (habitual aspect),” for x time” (durative aspect). Most realizations were uttered without the phonological realization of Cinquean adverbs, though.