A diachronic analysis of pronominal forms “contigo” and “com você” in personal letters

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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2021.v17n3a50197

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2nd person’s pronouns, address, oblique.

Abstract

The paper aims to analyze the oblique alternating forms of 2nd person singular with special focus to the variation contigo ~ com você in private letters from Rio de Janeiro written from the end of 19th century and during the 20th century. As theoretical-methodological apparatus, we consider the assumptions of the historical sociolinguistics (HERNÀNDEX-CAMPOY & CONDE SILVESTRE, 2012) to the analyses of a diachronic corpus. According to the results, the alternation contigo ~ com você is more balanced than the opposition prep.+ti ~ prep.+você. Furthermore, the form contigo is predominant among missives exchanged between family members and there are indications that the form is, in the third time period analyzed, more resistant to entries from the oblique constructions of você than the other oblique strategies of the tu paradigm.

Author Biography

Thaissa Frota Teixeira de Araujo Silva, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Licenciada em Letras - Português e Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2018) e mestre em Letras (Letras Vernáculas) pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2020). Integra como pesquisadora o grupo de pesquisa Núcleo de Estudos em Linguística Experimental (NELEXP), cadastrado no DGP/CNPq. Tem experiência na área de Letras, com ênfase em Língua Portuguesa, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: pronomes pessoais, oblíquo, segunda pessoa, variação e pronomes.
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2021-11-03

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Vol. 17 No. 3 (2021): Synchronic and diachronic grammatical studies

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