A relação de condicionalidade do conectivo quando em crônicas de Rui de Pina do início do século XVI

Abstract

This research proposes a description of the conditional relationship established in compound sentences which are traditionally referred to as subordinate clause and it is introduced by the connective when. This description is undertaken in five chronicles of the beginning of the sixteenth century, archaic period of the portuguese language, whose authorship is attributed to the chronicler rui de pina. Under a functionalist theoretical perspective, our goal is to verify the linguistic conditions which make a conditional reading of clauses that by tradition are classified by the presence of the connector when as of time. From the mapping of the occurrences of the connective when an initial analysis allowed us to separate the time of conditional clauses. The quantitative mapping of occurrences demonstrated the productivity of this linguistic strategy, which is the use of non- canonical form of the condition expression if p (then) q. We then used the parameters proposed by neves (2011) to describe how to establish a relation of condition between two clauses mediated by connective when. Finally, according to time, manner and semantic criteria, we found that the study of the language in use can demystify the traditional classification of the relationship established between clauses which considers the assignment of a single value to the clause and which is based on the previous classification of the connective, since what is considered exception is as productive as the rule itself.