‘CASTANHAS. VENDERAM-SE (VENDEU-SE) HOJE’: THE PASSIVE PERSPECTIVE OF THE VERBAL EVENT IN HANDWRITTEN COMMERCIAL LETTERS FROM THE 19TH CENTURY

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Abstract

For studying the relationship between the decrease in the frequency of verb agreement and the interpretation of the reflexive ‘se’ in the context of synthetic or pronominal passives (Nunes, 1990; Galves, 1996), we considered 867 (eight hundred and sixty-seven) commercial correspondence dated from 1880 to 1889 and written in the geographical limits identified as Capitania de São José do Rio Negro; today, state of Amazonas. Our investigation, with a sociofunctionalist approach (Labov, 1972; Givón, 1995; Dubois & Votre, 2012), showed that when the passive perspective of the verbal event (Vilela, 1999) is assumed by the sender of the manuscripts under analysis, it takes place, preferably, not with the passive with ‘se’ but with the analytic passive, corroborating the results of Carvalho (1990, p. 90) when he proposed that, due to the lack of clarity of the synthetic passive, “in its place, reigns sovereign, in Romance languages, the analytic passive”.

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Grace dos Anjos Freire Bandeira, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM)

Doutora em Letras pela Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil. Est´ágio Pós-doutoral em Linguística Portuguesa pela Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.  Professora da Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM). Coordenadora do Projeto de Pesquisa "Cartas dos séculos XIX e XX: organização de um corpus diacrônico do português registrado no Amazonas no período áureo da borracha", com apoio da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES). Orcid.org/ 0000-0002-0228-8947.

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2024-08-12

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Vol. 45 (2023)

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Dossiê temático "Análise Linguística: Perspectivas Teóricas"

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