On address pronouns in the history of Brazilian Portuguese
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Célia Regina dos Santos Lopes
Abstract
In this chapter, we analyze the reorganization process of the pronominal system of Brazilian Portuguese after the rise of você (‘you’) as a singular informal pronoun. We rely on studies based on data extracted from letters written from the 1870s to 1980s in Rio de Janeiro and discuss how the variation of the address forms tu and você in subject position affects other syntactic positions, observing the formation process of new syncretic paradigms in the complement functions, namely accusative (te~lhe~você~o/a), dative (te~lhe~prep+ti~prep+você), oblique (preposition+ti~você), and genitive (teu~seu).
Abstract
In this chapter, we analyze the reorganization process of the pronominal system of Brazilian Portuguese after the rise of você (‘you’) as a singular informal pronoun. We rely on studies based on data extracted from letters written from the 1870s to 1980s in Rio de Janeiro and discuss how the variation of the address forms tu and você in subject position affects other syntactic positions, observing the formation process of new syncretic paradigms in the complement functions, namely accusative (te~lhe~você~o/a), dative (te~lhe~prep+ti~prep+você), oblique (preposition+ti~você), and genitive (teu~seu).
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Address and address research 1
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Looking backwards, looking forwards
- A literature review of address studies from pragmatic and sociolinguistic perspectives 23
- On translating pronominal and nominal terms of address 47
- Examining Twitter as a source for address research using Colombian Spanish 75
- Imaginary customers and public figures 99
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Variation and change
- Now you Sie me, now you don’t 125
- On address pronouns in the history of Brazilian Portuguese 139
- Palenquero Creole 161
- Variation in polite address in contemporary Uruguayan Spanish 191
- Transition from V to T address among restaurant customers and waiters in Italy 221
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Reflections of address in digital and visual media
- Address negotiations in Dutch emails 253
- The variable functions of addressing hearer-participants with Spanish second person object forms in media discourse 281
- Pragmatic and grammatical categories for the analysis of forms of address in presidential election debates 305
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Nominal address
- Nominal address strategies in Cameroon French 335
- Brocatives 355
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Address, the self, and the other
- Introductions at international academic conferences 375
- Person-referring expressions, reference nominals, and address nominals 397
- Terms of address and self-reference in Ulaanbaatar Mongolian 415
- Index 435
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Address and address research 1
-
Looking backwards, looking forwards
- A literature review of address studies from pragmatic and sociolinguistic perspectives 23
- On translating pronominal and nominal terms of address 47
- Examining Twitter as a source for address research using Colombian Spanish 75
- Imaginary customers and public figures 99
-
Variation and change
- Now you Sie me, now you don’t 125
- On address pronouns in the history of Brazilian Portuguese 139
- Palenquero Creole 161
- Variation in polite address in contemporary Uruguayan Spanish 191
- Transition from V to T address among restaurant customers and waiters in Italy 221
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Reflections of address in digital and visual media
- Address negotiations in Dutch emails 253
- The variable functions of addressing hearer-participants with Spanish second person object forms in media discourse 281
- Pragmatic and grammatical categories for the analysis of forms of address in presidential election debates 305
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Nominal address
- Nominal address strategies in Cameroon French 335
- Brocatives 355
-
Address, the self, and the other
- Introductions at international academic conferences 375
- Person-referring expressions, reference nominals, and address nominals 397
- Terms of address and self-reference in Ulaanbaatar Mongolian 415
- Index 435
