A mudança e constituição da microconstrução "pois não" no português brasileiro

Abstract

This article describes the process of constituting the microconstruction “pois não” in the perspective of the Construction Grammar. It was verified that the syntactic-semantic changes run along a path that starts from an atypical context in which the construction “pois” ceases to act as a conjunction. In the critical context “pois” loses its conclusive function and assumes discursivepragmatic function. Finally, it reaches the isolated context: there are loss of the semantic function of the negation and the chunking between “pois” and “não”, resulting in innovative use, a new node in the network of discursive markers, a process of expansion.