[DAR ruim] AND [DAR bom]: two idiosyncratic idioms from brazilian portuguese

Dar is a Portuguese verb used prototypically in the prepositional dative construction, e.g.: ele deu um anel de diamantes para noiva (in English, he gave diamond ring to his bride ). According Goldberg (1995), this kind of transference meaning emerges from interaction following semantic roles and syntactic functions: an agent as subject, patient direct object recipient indirect object. Although dar usually recruits NPs or PPs arguments, likewise English give , it has been widely very idiosyncratic idiomatic construction Brazilian Portuguese, where followed by adjectives ruim bom, mas está tudo bem things went bad but everything fine In paper, we aim describe which represent with notation: [DAR ADJ]. Our analysis based on theoretical assumptions Usage-Based Linguistics (cf. ROSÁRIO & OLIVEIRA, 2016; BYBEE, 2010; TRAUGOTT TROUSDALE, 2013; among others.), especially notion symbolic form-meaning pairing property partial/non-compositionality. A total 200 tokens bom] ruim] were selected Corpus Now analyzed through quali-quantitative study. The results show that both constructions have argumentative intersubjective contexts TANTUCCI, 2018) for evaluative reasons. Moreover, more productive than bom]: while word string composed + always instantiate ADJ] corpus, bom likely compositional – [DAR][NP] –, adjective belongs NP: e.g., o padre deveria [ exemplo ] priest could good example ]).