Ainda sobre possessivos de terceira pessoa no português brasileiro

The expression of possession relations by third-person pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese is an ongoing process of variation, which is not yet adequately represented in grammars: seu pronoun, in certain situations, remains productive. We examined a sample of university students’ speech and found the s...

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Authors: Freitag, Raquel Meister Ko.; Siqueira, José Manoel
Format: Article
Status:Published version
Publication date:2020
Country:Brasil
Institution:UNB
Repository:Caderno de Squibs
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/30258
Online Access:https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/cs/article/view/30258
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:pronomes possessivos
variação
dominância pronominal
possessive pronouns
variation
pronominal dominance
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Summary:The expression of possession relations by third-person pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese is an ongoing process of variation, which is not yet adequately represented in grammars: seu pronoun, in certain situations, remains productive. We examined a sample of university students’ speech and found the same distribution of PP3 in NURC. Results of a conditional regression analysis of PP3 corroborate the hypothesis of pronominal dominance and that of Müller’s (1997) complementary distribution, that seu works as a closed-form variable and dele expresses co-reference.