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Indeterminação do sujeito no português brasileiro: o pessoal tá inventando moda

Sandra Quarezemin    Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina/CNPq, Brasil    

Gabriel Fuchsberger    Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina/PIBIC, Brasil    

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abstract

This paper describes and analyses a new strategy of subject indetermination in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). The new strategy presents generic noun phrases, such as tu/você (‘you’), a gente (‘we’), o cara (‘the guy’), a pessoa (‘the person’), etc., in the subject position without an explicit referent. We argue that the type of sentence addressed in this study is devoid of referentiality. Its emergence seems to have to do with the fall of the clitic se, on the one hand, and with the need to fill the pre-verbal position, on the other.

Pubblicato
09 Dicembre 2020
Accettato
28 Luglio 2020
Presentato
02 Ottobre 2019
Lingua
PT
ISBN (PRINT)
978-88-6969-486-8
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-461-5

Keywords: Generic noun phrasesIndeterminationSubject syntaxBrazilian Portuguese

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