Sintaxe e pragmática dos clíticos no português medieval

Maria José Carvalho

Syntactic and pragmatic aspects of clitics in archaic Portuguese

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Maria José Carvalho Universidade de Coimbra

Keywords:

clitics, archaic Portuguese, enclisis, proclisis, historical syntax.

Abstract

In contemporary European Portuguese, we know that the usual position of clitics is enclisis, while in Brazilian Portuguese and in other Romance languages it is proclisis, as in medieval Portuguese. Since this phenomenon is a factor that differentiates modern Galician and European Portuguese from other Romance languages, including Spanish, as from the American variety of Portuguese, we shall examine the most important aspects of the syntax of Portuguese clitics between the 13th and the 16th centuries, the so-called ‘archaic Portuguese’ period. The corpus we have selected and transcribed is a sample of around 150 original legal documents dating from 1289-1565, from the collection of the Cistercian monastery of Santa Maria de Alcobaça (Institute of National Archives/Torre do Tombo, Lisbon), a particularly important centre of culture in medieval Portugal.

Author Biography

Maria José Carvalho, Universidade de Coimbra

Professora da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, membro do Instituto de Língua e Literatura Portuguesas D. Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos. Concluiu o seu Doutoramento, em 2007, com o trabalho intitulado “Documentação medieval do mosteiro de Santa Maria de Alcobaça (sécs. XIII-XVI). Edição e estudo linguístico”. Tem-se interessado, nos últimos anos, 182 matraga, rio de janeiro, v.17, n.26, jan./jun. 2010 pela história do Português do Brasil, tendo publicado em 2005 o artigo “On the Origin of the Final Unstressed [i] in Brazilian and Other Varieties of Portuguese. New Evidence in an Enduring Debate.

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2010-06-19

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Carvalho, M. J. (2010). Syntactic and pragmatic aspects of clitics in archaic Portuguese. MATRAGA - Journal Published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio De Janeiro State University (UERJ), 17(26). Retrieved from https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/matraga/article/view/26327

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Vol. 17 No. 26 (2010): Descriptive studies: Portuguese and foreign languages

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Linguistic Papers

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