COMPETING MOTIVATIONS AS A SOURCE OF INADEQUACIES IN THE CLAUSE CODING: AN ANALYSIS IN THE LIGHT OF FUNCTIONAL DISCOURSE GRAMMAR

This work analyzes some factors why it can be considered that a sentence is inadequate concerning the interaction event in which it is used and in relation to the grammar of the specific language, according to a functionalist view of language as a flexible system when faced with usage pressure. Inadequate constructions are studied under the perspective of the assignment of pragmatic, semantic and syntactic functions, according to the conception of grammatical functions of Functional Discourse Grammar (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008). Assuming that pragmatic and semantic motivations compete for the morphosyntactic expression (DU BOIS, 1987), the main hypothesis is that competing motivations processes can be left unsolved so that an inadequate construction arises. We discuss some types of inadequate constructions found in the corpus, collected from a bank of high school students' texts. They are related to a frame in which the inadequacy is viewed as the non satisfaction of a functional demand.