出版社：EDUFU - Editora da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
摘要：In this paper I develop the Construction Network Reconfiguration Hypothesis, according to which construction networks may have their inheritance links changed over time due to the emergence of new constructions via grammaticalization.In order to demonstrate such hypothesis, I investigate, under a diachronic approach, the configuration, in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), of a radial network of 11 constructions, which all share the para infinitive syntactic schema as well as some variation of the semantic frame of Purpose.I present a corpus-based analysis of the inheritance links found among the constructions; moreover, I investigate the history of each construction, from Medieval Portuguese to BP.This analysis supports the claim that, throughout time and due to grammaticalization processes, new para infinitive constructions have been incorporated to an original network composed of four constructions.The emergence of such new constructions promoted the reconfiguration of the networks for each century.
关键词：Construction Grammar; Grammaticalization; Inheritance; Change; Para Infinitive Constructions.
