THE PERCEPTION OF SECOND PERSON SINGULAR PRONOUNS IN CAUSATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

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In this paper, we report the preliminary results of a research on the variation between the second person singular pronouns te and você in causative constructions. Our goals were to test whether these structures are a favorable environment for você and whether the agentivity of the caused event also acts as a conditioning factor for this variant. For that, we used the experimental methodology and built a forced-choice task, which was applied to 78 Brazilian Portuguese speakers. The experimental results showed that participants chose significantly more experimental sentences that contained você than those that contained te, especially when the caused event had more semantically agentive verbs.

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Thiago Laurentino de Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Professor Adjunto A II do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Possui Bacharelado e Licenciatura em Letras Português / Literaturas (2012), mestrado (2014) e doutorado (2018) em Letras Vernáculas (Língua Portuguesa) pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Tem experiência na área de sociolinguística e linguística histórica, com ênfase na variação e mudança dos pronomes pessoais do português brasileiro, e atuando principalmente na investigação das formas pronominais de segunda pessoa do singular em diferentes contextos morfossintáticos (complementação verbal, possessivo e imperativo). No âmbito do Programa de Pós- Graduação em Linguística/UFRJ, integra a linha de pesquisa Variação e Mudança Linguística e coordena atualmente o projeto de pesquisa "A percepção da variação linguística: formas de tratamento do português em perspectiva experimental".

Lucas Guimarães de Araujo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Graduando de Licenciatura em Letras (Português e Literaturas) da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Atuou como aluno de iniciação científica voluntariamente (sem bolsa), sob a orientação do professor Thiago Laurentino de Oliveira.

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2021-12-07

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Vol. 43 (2021)

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Artigos Tema Livre

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