A comparação além da oração: o uso de construções imperativas de atitude proposicional
This study analyzed imperative propositional attitude constructions, finding they function similarly to canonical comparative constructions, especially with "imaginar" and "supor" for hypothetical comparisons.
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The paper investigates how Portuguese Brazilian expresses comparison beyond the sentence level through “imperative constructions of propositional attitude,” focusing on syntactic, semantic, and discourse behavior, particularly when episthemic verbs such as “think,” “imagine,” and “suppose” combine with subordinating material that can mediate comparison-like relations. Using a usage-based cognitive and Construction Grammar framework, the authors first extract 9,679 occurrences from the Corpus do Português and analyze 1,000 samples, then build a psycholinguistic comprehension task from corpus results to measure how well users perceive comparability. The key findings are that these constructions are very prevalent in example contexts (example frames), that such items show higher comparability indices in comprehension, and that “imaginar” and “supor” are preferred for hypothetical comparisons. The study does not explicitly discuss endometriosis or adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index.
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