As construções concessivas no português brasileiro do século XIX

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SALGADO, E. The concessive constructions in Brazilian Portuguese of the nineteenth century. 2007. 93 f. Dissertacao (Mestrado em Lingua Portuguesa) – Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciencias Humanas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 2007. This dissertation introduces a descriptive study of the concessive constructions, which is considered subornative complexes, in brazilian periodicals of the nineteenth century. The data had been collected in edited materials for studies of Brazilian Portuguese history project (BPHP), more necessarily in readers and periodical editors letters of the nineteenth century, from Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Parana, Pernambuco, Bahia and Minas Gerais. At a first moment, the formality degree and the literal sort had been analyzed. After that, in a functionary perspective, it was tried to describe, analyze and explain the concessive constructions behavior, detaching: the type of the concessive conector used, the value of the contrastive constructions, the correlation manner-time, the position of the conjuncts in the concessive complex, the possibility of changes in the order of the conjuncts, the reading domain, the polarity game, the kind of predicative in both conjunctives of the concessive complex. Extra-linguistics elements, like the kind of the letters author and the period of the century where they had been written, had been also taken in consideration for the compositions of the analysis. In this way, the description of the concessive constructions use, in century nineteen, has the intention to contribute for the studies about the Brazilian Portuguese history.