“Assim, como estas, muitas outras questões interessantes e de actualidade ficarão pairando na dúvida”: uma análise de assim como no domínio da junção

Abstract

Based on Halliday (1985) and Raible (1992, 2001), this paper argues that the´interpropositional patterns of assim are distributed in continuum, set within the representative usages of different types of interdependency, from examples of dominant relations of parataxis to examples of hypotatics, covering examples between the poles of the continuum. The paper takes as its starting point the function of the phrase assim como, with a description of its syntactic and semantic behavior in the selected corpus and an analysis of evidence of linguistic change through grammaticalization, which infers its function as a connector indicating the position held by this pattern in the continuum.