Pronominal order in Brazilian Portuguese: from enclisis to proclisis, from clitic to tonic (or There and Back Again, a Word Order’s Holiday)

Pronominal order in Brazilian Portuguese: from enclisis to proclisis, from clitic to tonic (or There and Back Again, a Word Order’s Holiday)

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-8412.2017v14n1p1717 We investigate the grammatical motivations (i) behind the change from enclisis to proclisis that took place in the nineteenth century, and (ii) behind the increase of the tonic pronoun as a verbal complement. The central hypothesis here is that the...

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Main Authors: Gabriel de Ávila Othero, Rubia Wildner Cardozo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística 2017-03-01
Series:Fórum Linguístico
Subjects:
Português brasileiro
Colocação pronominal
Pronomes
Objeto direto
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/45039

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