Variable Use Of Anaphoric Forms In Accusative

Our study is the result of a Labovian sociolinguistic research whose object of study consists of the variable use of anaphoric forms in accusative as clitics, personal pronouns and null objects. We have mainly based our study on Camara Júnior (2004), Cyrino (1993, 1997. 2000), Duarte (1989) and Oliv...

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Authors: Pereira, Ivelã, Coelho, Izete Lehmkuhl
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2013
Country:Brasil
Institution:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repository:letrônica
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/13422
Online Access:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/letronica/article/view/13422
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Sociolinguistic
Accusative
Anaphoric forms
Pronouns.
Sociolinguística. Acusativo. Formas anafóricas. Pronomes.
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Summary:Our study is the result of a Labovian sociolinguistic research whose object of study consists of the variable use of anaphoric forms in accusative as clitics, personal pronouns and null objects. We have mainly based our study on Camara Júnior (2004), Cyrino (1993, 1997. 2000), Duarte (1989) and Oliveira (2007). The methodology used for the description and analysis of the data is based on Quantitative Sociolinguistics (LABOV, 2008 [1972]). The sample investigated in this work consists of written texts produced by students from the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grades, from four public schools in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. The independent internal variables include semantic, morphosyntactic and syntactic aspects, and the independent external variables are: ‘sex’, ‘age’ and ‘schooling’. The results revealed that the “reto” pronoun and the null object were the students’ most frequently used variants, and the “oblíquo” pronoun appeared as a rarely used option, mainly conditioned by the antecedent ‘animacy’ feature.