JoLIE 15:3/2022

 

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INTENSIFYING ELATIVE PERIPHRASES IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES: CRITERION OF PLURICENTRISM?

 

Maria Célia Lima-Hernandes A green circle with white letters AI-generated content may be incorrect.

University of São Paulo, Brazil

 

Maria João Marçalo A green circle with white letters AI-generated content may be incorrect.

University of Évora, Évora; CEL-UÉ, Portugal

 

 

 

Abstract

 

When he stated that autonomous words in the sentence could, if submitted to the grammaticalization process, assume functions of a grammatical element, Meillet (1948: 131) did not imagine that this process could be at the service of other linguistic changes, nor that it could mobilise other types of linguistic items such as locutionary expressions or constructions. In the second half of the 20th century, we participated in the movement to revisit the footprints left by Meillet (1948) and, after more than twenty years of research on grammatical change in Portuguese, with a theoretical apparatus based on the functionalist assumptions of grammaticalization as a process, we became aware that objects of greater complexity[1] should be also taken as object of study and verification. In this study, we will focus on the elative constructions drawing on some examples of European languages so that we can reflect upon measures based on the habituation of sociocultural uses in pluricentric languages. The samples reveal that, starting from the cultural component of languages, we can identify culturally diverse solutions for similar intentions. If we are correct, we present some evidence in favour of a new approach to pluricentrism.

 

Keywords: Elative constructions; Grammaticalisation process; Sociocultural habituation measures; Pluricentric languages.

 

 

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How to cite this article: Lima-Hernandes, M. C., & Marçalo, M. J. (2022). Intensifying elative periphrases in European languages: Criterion of pluricentrism?. Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education – JoLIE, 15(3), 41-60. doi: https://doi.org/10.29302/jolie.2022.15.3.4

 

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[1] The processes of combining clauses are excluded from this list, on which one of us has already had studies completed in the late 90’s, under the technical guidance of Prof. Maria Luiza Braga: Lima-Hernandes (1998).