Pistas para três gramáticas na diacronia do português (Clues to three grammars in portuguese's diachrony)

This paper presents some empirical results about the history of the syntax of Portuguese clitics that corroborate the hypothesis that there were three grammatical stages in the history of european portuguese, as proposed by Galves (1996). We will focus on the phenomenon of interpolation of phrasal constituents between the clitic and the verb in texts written by Portuguese authors born between the fifteenth and the nineteenth century, discussing previous works such as Martins (1994), Ribeiro (1995 ) and Fiéis (2001), that investigated the same phenomenon in older texts. KEYWORDS: Clitics. Interpolation. Syntactic change. Periodization. Portuguese grammars.
O presente artigo destina-se a apresentar alguns dos resultados da pesquisa sobre a sintaxe dos clíticos na história do português1, que corroboram a hipótese delineada por Galves (1996) de ter havido dois períodos de mudança e três estágios gramaticais na história do português europeu. Focalizaremos aqui o fenômeno da interpolação de constituintes entre o pronome clítico e o verbo, com base em textos de autores portugueses nascidos entre o século XV e XIX, e em trabalhos, como os de Martins (1994), Ribeiro (1995) e Fiéis (2001) que investigaram o mesmo fenômeno em textos mais antigosPALAVRAS-CHAVE: Clíticos. Interpolação. Mudança Sintática. Periodização. Gramáticas do Português.ABSTRACT This paper presents some empirical results about the history of the syntax of Portuguese clitics that corroborate the hypothesis that there were three grammatical stages in the history of european portuguese, as proposed by Galves (1996). We will focus on the phenomenon of interpolation of phrasal constituents between the clitic and the verb in texts written by Portuguese authors born between the fifteenth and the nineteenth century, discussing previous works such as Martins (1994), Ribeiro (1995 ) and Fiéis (2001), that investigated the same phenomenon in older texts. KEYWORDS: Clitics. Interpolation. Syntactic change. Periodization. Portuguese grammars.