A CONSTRUÇÃO DE SENTIDO DO ADJETIVO GRANDE: UM ESTUDO NA PERSPECTIVA DA TOPE

The objective of this paper is to discuss the construction of meaning of adjective 'grande' from the Portuguese language, observe the Qualification and Quantification Operations in its occurrences, and prepare the Schematic Form, which summarizes the regularity of its uses. In contrast to the view of the Normative Grammar and of the Usage Grammar, the theoretical support came from the Theory of the Predicative and Enunciative Operations (TOPE, in Portuguese) by Antoine Culioli (1990), which adopts a line of research that is focused on identity and variation of morpholexical units, which is developed by Franckel (2006), Vogue (2000, 2011), and Paillard (2011). The aforementioned theory considers the statement as a management of operations and the lexicon is not seen as a pre-built material and introduced by the syntactic organization of statements, but rather as a place of orderly change, i.e., the units are not carriers of meaning in themselves, but their senses are arising in their operation in an enunciative space, regardless of the category to which it belongs. For the analyses, the linguistic search corpus called PORFATER was used. Through the analyses, it was found that the Qualification Operation was predominant in relation to the Quantification Operation, and the construction of meaning of that adjective depends on the semantic nature of the name to which it relates.