Quantifying binominal constructions in Portuguese and Russian: the case of "um monte de NP" and Kucha NPgen
This paper reports on a contrastive study of Brazilian Portuguese um monte de NP and Moscow Standard Russian kucha NPgen quantifying binominal constructions, under a usage-based constructionist approach. To identify semantic specificities in both constructions, an empirical investigation based on co...
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author | Karen Sampaio Braga Alonso Diego Leite de Oliveira Nuciene Caroline Amphilóphio Fumaux Gabrielle de Figueira do Nascimento Thiago Moreira da Silva |
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description | This paper reports on a contrastive study of Brazilian Portuguese um monte de NP and Moscow Standard Russian kucha NPgen quantifying binominal constructions, under a usage-based constructionist approach. To identify semantic specificities in both constructions, an empirical investigation based on collostructional analysis was conducted. The results indicate that despite some similarities between Portuguese and Russian in terms of cognitive operations involved in the conceptualization of the binominal quantifying constructions um monte de NP and kucha NPgen, there are specificities concerning each construction in each language in terms of semantic compatibility of lexemes co-occurring in them. |
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spelling | doaj.art-b5cc1a06079c4f70a39fac23ac3b49492022-12-22T01:14:55ZporUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-Graduação em LinguísticaWorking Papers em Linguística1984-84202020-07-012117510110.5007/1984-8420.2020v21n1p7534435Quantifying binominal constructions in Portuguese and Russian: the case of "um monte de NP" and Kucha NPgenKaren Sampaio Braga Alonso0Diego Leite de Oliveira1Nuciene Caroline Amphilóphio Fumaux2Gabrielle de Figueira do Nascimento3Thiago Moreira da Silva4Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroThis paper reports on a contrastive study of Brazilian Portuguese um monte de NP and Moscow Standard Russian kucha NPgen quantifying binominal constructions, under a usage-based constructionist approach. To identify semantic specificities in both constructions, an empirical investigation based on collostructional analysis was conducted. The results indicate that despite some similarities between Portuguese and Russian in terms of cognitive operations involved in the conceptualization of the binominal quantifying constructions um monte de NP and kucha NPgen, there are specificities concerning each construction in each language in terms of semantic compatibility of lexemes co-occurring in them.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/workingpapers/article/view/70666quantifying binominal constructionsusage-based construction grammarmontekuchacollostructional analysis |
spellingShingle | Karen Sampaio Braga Alonso Diego Leite de Oliveira Nuciene Caroline Amphilóphio Fumaux Gabrielle de Figueira do Nascimento Thiago Moreira da Silva Quantifying binominal constructions in Portuguese and Russian: the case of "um monte de NP" and Kucha NPgen Working Papers em Linguística quantifying binominal constructions usage-based construction grammar monte kucha collostructional analysis |
title | Quantifying binominal constructions in Portuguese and Russian: the case of "um monte de NP" and Kucha NPgen |
title_full | Quantifying binominal constructions in Portuguese and Russian: the case of "um monte de NP" and Kucha NPgen |
title_fullStr | Quantifying binominal constructions in Portuguese and Russian: the case of "um monte de NP" and Kucha NPgen |
title_full_unstemmed | Quantifying binominal constructions in Portuguese and Russian: the case of "um monte de NP" and Kucha NPgen |
title_short | Quantifying binominal constructions in Portuguese and Russian: the case of "um monte de NP" and Kucha NPgen |
title_sort | quantifying binominal constructions in portuguese and russian the case of um monte de np and kucha npgen |
topic | quantifying binominal constructions usage-based construction grammar monte kucha collostructional analysis |
url | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/workingpapers/article/view/70666 |
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