EMERGêNCIA E INOVA O NA LíNGUA: EXPLORANDO O PARADIGMA FUNCIONAL DA GRAMATICALIZA O

Functional paradigm of grammaticalization (grammaticalization theory) is a perspective in the linguistics studies which analyses the process in which items become more grammatical in the time. As paradigm, grammaticalization treats of how the forms and grammatical constructions appear, how are the forms used and how model the language. Studies of this nature won space in the linguistic literature in the 1970’s, exploding in the 1990’s. In this text, the concepts of grammaticalization are presented in the perspective of the functional paradigm of the grammaticalization, are discussed the critics at concepts and yours replies, and are analyzed some possible directions for the studies.