Rebuilding the history of Brazilian Portuguese through Tycho Brahe Brazil Corpus: new data, new perspectives
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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2021.v17n3a49621Keywords:
corpus linguistics, methodology in diachronic linguistics, the emergence of brazilian portuguese, clitics, progressive structureAbstract
This paper presents new data for the historical investigation in Brazilian Portuguese, to be available on the Brazilian Tycho Brahe Parsed Corpus of Historical Portuguese (CTBB), which will contain letters and minutes from Good Men from Salvador City Council and comedy plays, essentially from Rio de Janeiro. As an exemplification of this new set of data, this paper presents an investigation on clitic placement in V1 context and on the morphology of progressive periphrasis in Brazilian Portuguese, based not only on the authors’ date of birth but also on the publication date of the texts. We discuss the issue of the emergence of Brazilian Portuguese, widely debated, as already existing in the mid-18th century, as defended by Ribeiro (1998) and Corôa (2021). Furthermore, we argue in favour of the importance of research in historical linguistics by comparing not only birth and publication date but also different textual types.Downloads
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