The connection between adverb and aspect A cognitivist and multimodal proposal
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Adverb, Aspect, Cognitive Grammar, Utterance Construction Grammar, Gesture StudiesAbstract
In Brazilian Portuguese, the expression of aspect is not restricted to verbs, but can be extended to adverbs. In this study, we aim to articulate, in the framework of Cognitive Grammar, the categories of adverb, iteration and aspect/aspectuality, to describe the category aspectualizer adverb of repetition. Also, we demonstrate how the category in question can be instantiated by the partially filled construction schema [QNT + times (‘vezes’)]. Considering the relevance of Gesture Studies in the instantiation of the category under analysis, the articulation between aspect and gesture in Cognitive Grammar is presented, as well as the model of Utterance Construction Grammar. Afterwards, the methodological procedures of gesture analyses and identification are presented, in correlation with speech, as well as the collection and analyses of illustrative examples. The discussion of results demonstrates that verbal constructions instantiated by the schema [QNT + times (‘vezes’)] can be linked to gesture repetition, marking iteration or reduplication, and to the gesture Image Schema CYCLE. Therefore, from the multimodal point of view, the succession of events or iterative acts, conveyed in speech, constitutes a limited or unlimited action, demonstrated in gestures.
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