Bispo, Edvaldo BalduinoCordeiro, Fernando da Silva2017-05-252017-05-252017-03-16CORDEIRO, Fernando da Silva. Construção nominalizadora de particípio presente: uma abordagem funcional centrada no uso. 2017. 104f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Estudos da Linguagem) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2017.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/23080In this work, we study the nominalizing construction, responsible for the formation of nouns and adjectives from a verbal base, formalized as [[X]V -nte]ADJ. We aim to analyze this formal pattern as a form-meaning pairing and to identify the semantic-cognitive and discursivepragmatic motivations implied in the recurrence of its constructs in real situations of interaction. Our theoretical support is the Linguística Funcional Centrada no Uso (LFCU), as characterized in Furtado da Cunha, Bispo and Silva (2013), and contributions of the theoretical model of Construction Grammar as formulated by Goldberg (1995, 2006), Croft (2001), and more recently by Traugott and Trousdale (2013). The data for this research were collected from the Corpus Discurso & Gramática, sections Natal and Rio de Janeiro, which has oral and written texts, produced by informants of different educational levels, representing five textual configurations. It is a research of eminently quantitative and qualitative approaches; In relation to the objectives, it is characterized as a descriptive-explanatory research. The results point out that, among formal properties, there is a partial syntactic-semantic correlation between verbbase and deverbal adjective, since adjectives do not totally inherit the verbal-based syntactic framework. In the case of functional properties, the data show the non-semantic transparency between verbal base and corresponding adjective, in several uses of adjectives in -nte; the low agentivity of these names; and their multifunctionality in the contexts of use in which they occur. The adjectives analyzed are in a continuum between the category of present participle and the category of adjectives, although in most cases they are no longer recognized as a form of the participle. Cognitively, we also perceive the performance of metaphorical and metonymic projections in the instances of use of [[X]V -nte]ADJ. The construction can still be characterized as partially schematic, partly productive and partly compositional.Acesso AbertoConstrução nominalizadoraAdjetivo deverbalLinguística funcional centrada no usoGramática de construçõesmasterThesisCNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA