Indícios de representações cognitivas na gramática diassistêmica: o caso de [(ESP) N (X)] no constructicon multilíngue de anglófonos aprendizes de PB

Abstract

In this research, we analyzed non-native uses configured by the pattern of nominal construction [(ESP) N (X)] of BP in the writing of foreign learners, native English speakers. The study investigates, more specifically, occurrences compatible with the constructional patterns of BP and those that present some deviation related to the representation of the specifier slot (ESP), which may indicate the prevalence of idioconstructional aspects of the source language. To this end, we adhere to the postulates of the Diassystemic Construction Grammar (HÖDER, 2012; HÖDER, 2020), a constructional version based on the proposed use for the approach of linguistic contact phenomena, according to which the multilingual constructicon is shaped from idioconstructional and diaconstructional relations in the same taxonomic network. Depending on the model, we bet on the hypothesis that both convergent written representations and those compromised by phenomena of deletion, improper filling and discordant combinations of specifiers to the left of nominal items may reflect the performance of cognitive processes of general domain that sometimes enable the emergence of a diassystemic link, or the maintenance of specific aspects at a more underlying level, which are reflected in (super) visible generalizations in L2 writing. To prove this proposition, we employed a methodology of quantitative and qualitative analysis of 312 occurrences of [(ESP) N (X)] in 25 texts produced by English-speaking apprentices of BP, taken from the Corpus NEI∫/UFRJ. We have guided the analysis in the light of variables that have already been shown to be relevant in previous studies (SNAPE, 2008; IONIN; MONTRUL, 2010; FREITAS Jr. et al, 2018, 2022; NASCIMENTO et al, 2019, 2020), namely: (i) Specifier typology; (ii) Animality of the nuclear nominal; (iii) Informational status of construction; (iv) Participating role of construction in the context of use; (v) Presence/Absence of attributive phrase in slot (X); (vi) Typology of (X) when filled in and its possible morphosyntactic and semantic implications on the representation of (ESP) observed; (vii) Locus of phenomena. The results allude to the confirmation of the hypothesis, that is, demonstrate that the multilingual construction network of research participants includes the formation of a diaconstruction (more abstract) and idioconstructions (less abstract) that underlies the observed uses. Thus, we show the compatibility of the grammar of diassystem constructions, a still recent model, with the analysis of typical phenomena of the L2 acquisition process, as defended Höder, Prentice and Tingsell (2021)