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CONSTRUÇÕES DE TÓPICO MARCADO NA ESCRITA DE FALANTES DE HERANÇA DE PORTUGUÊS BRASILEIRO.
- Source :
- Lingue e Linguaggi; 2021, Vol. 46, p71-87, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- This paper aims to investigate marked topic constructions (CTs) in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) as Heritage Language. These constructions are a syntactic phenomenon used as a grammatical device "to promote a referent on the Topic Acceptability Scale from accessible to active status" (Lambrecht 1994, p. 183). To achieve this aim, we will analyse a series of CTs, namely topicalization, right-dislocation, hanging topicalization and left-dislocation in their role as maintenance structures in a written corpus of heritage speakers of BP. The methodological approach adopted here considers some of the syntactic changes typical of neo-standard BP, such as the change of the pro-drop parameter (Duarte 1993, 1995, 1998, 2000) and the features of BP as a Subject-Prominent and Topic-Prominent language, progressively moving away from other Romance languages like French or European Portuguese (Berlinck et al. 2009; Vasco 2007; Orsini, Vasco 2007; Orsini 2020). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- Portuguese
- ISSN :
- 22390367
- Volume :
- 46
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Lingue e Linguaggi
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 155231739
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1285/i22390359v46p71