A rede construcional dos verbos de movimento transitivos diretos

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to investigate the construction of verbs of movement followed by direct object (VMTD). Our analysis aimed to reveal the differences in meaning of these verbs, proposing a syntactic-semantic classification, which is based on the relationship between the verb and its arguments. The Corpus Discurso & Gramática: a língua falada e escrita na cidade do Natal (FURTADO DA CUNHA, 1998) was used as the database which allowed us to capture the subject of study as it is manifested in social communicative interactions. The theoretical framework combines the principles of Linguística Funcional Centrada no Uso (LFCU) and Cognitive Linguistics, especially the Construction Grammar. The analysis showed that the VMTD may have different semantic framings, if we consider the participant which moves or the type of influence it can undergo as a consequence of the verbal action. The results indicated that these framings are part of two basic schemes, movement and displacement, which license three types of subschemas, manipulation, traversing and bringing, which, in turn, license micro-constructions defined according to the semantic roles played by its arguments. This paper proposes a classification for transitive verbs of movement arranged in a constructional network which hierarchically organize the relatively distinct cognitive schemes relatively distinct which these verbs conceptualize.