Accusative objects of 3rd person in carioca variety of Brazilian Portuguese
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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2026.v22n1a72232Abstract
In this paper, our aim is to present the results of our research about the 3rd anaphoric accusative object in the carioca variety of Brazilian Portuguese based on PEUL interviews. Considering the studies of Duarte (1986), Cyrino (1994), Casagrande (2012), Kato, Martins e Nunes (2023) and our research (Simões, 2015, 2022), our hypothesis was that there would be restrictions or impossibility to lexical pronouns expression if nouns are [-animated; -specific] indefinite or quantified. Regarding the theoretical approach, generative grammar (Chomsky, 1981, 1986) and sociolinguist perspective (Labov, 2008; Weinreich; Labov; Herzog, 2009) were combined. We confirmed our hypothesis and we proposed the generative analysis developed in Simões (2015) on lexical pronouns and null objects constructions in the carioca variety of Brazilian Portuguese.
Keywords: Anaphoric accusative object. Brazilian Portuguese. Linguistic variation. Object agreement. Coexistence of grammars.
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