Posicionamentos teórico-metodológicos sobre identidade semântica e categorização de unidades linguísticas: de Émile Benveniste a Antoine Culioli.

Our object of analysis in this paper is the methodology carried out by Benveniste in articles where linguistic units of morpholexical nature are studied, namely, The sublogical system of prepositions in Latin (BENVENISTE, 1966) and Semantic Problems in Reconstruction (BENVENISTE, 1966). We aim at analyzing how the examination of data presented by Benveniste brings consequences to the understanding of semantic identity and categorization of the linguistic unit in his articles and in those of Antoine Culioli, a linguist that also belongs to the field of enunciative linguistics. The results show how Benveniste assigns to language its enunciative status by establishing a dialogue with the concept of invariance (from the framework of Culioli's Theory of the Predicative and Enunciative Operations) and by referring to a general signification, equally understood as constant definition, sublogical schema, and underlying schema. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]