Constructional variation by analogy: constructional patterns of verbalpredication in the passive voice

This article deals with the theme of the space of the variation between the generalizations of the Construction Grammar and about an analysis, under a socioconstructionist point of view, of constructional patterns of verbal predication in the passive voice. It aims to present arguments for the study of linguistic variation by similarity and to illustrate variation of constructional patterns of (pronominal and analytical) passive verbal predication. It is based on the assumptions of Functional-Cognitive Linguistics, which focuses on linguistic experience. In general terms, it collaborates to the reflection about the potential of functional alignment of independent constructional subschemas and microconstructions that it maps, based on methodology of statistical treatment and on description of data of sentences in the synthetic and analytic passive voice. It reveals three configuration possibilities of verbal predication from the constructional subschema of pronominal passive and four configuration possibilities verbal predication from the constructional subschema of analytical passive.