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Based on the main contributions of the constructional approach to change — in the terms proposed by Traugott and Trousdale (2013) — within the framework of Usage-Based Functional Linguistics, this study aims to analyze the different uses of enfim as a discoursemarker. Using a mixed-method approach (Lacerda, 2016) to analyze a corpus compiled from the social network X, this study observes the constructional patterns of "enfim", particularly concerning its use as a discourse marker. The analysis demonstrates how these uses, in relation to the properties of schematicity, productivity, and compositionality, can provide significant insights into the treatment of grammatical change processes.
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