“Não esqueça eu” - O uso do pronome sujeito EU em função de objeto no português popular do Brasil

Marco Losavio

doi:10.55245/energeia.2024.008

Authors

Marco Losavio Universität Wien https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1803-2428

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55245/energeia.2024.008

Keywords:

Linguistic typology, pronominal system, Brazilian Portuguese, clitics, morphosyntax.

Abstract

Portuguese, like many other Romance languages, is traditionally classified as a pro-drop language with a nominative-accusative alignment in its pronominal system. This means that it basically encodes the subject function on the verb, whereas the object function is marked on the object pronoun itself. However, spoken Portuguese in Brazil has been known to have drastically readjusted its pronominal system due to the introduction of novel pronouns such as você and a gente that do not inflect for case and which both trigger the verb to be inflected for 3rd person singular. Obviously, such radical changes can affect the entire pronominal system. New evidence taken from various sources such as pop music and X (Twitter) show precisely this: loss of case distinction seems to affect also other pronouns in Spoken Brazilian Portuguese. This paper tries to follow this development with the example of the 1st person singular pronoun eu by analyzing data found on social media and comparing it to written sources as far back as the 15th century.

Author Biography

Marco Losavio, Universität Wien

Marco Losavio is currently working as scientific staff at the Institute of Romance Studies at the University of Vienna where he works in subproject 7. Researching clitic doubling and null objects in Iberoromance varieties, he focuses on Brazilian Portuguese as his past work has centered on changing alignments in the Brazilian Portuguese pronominal system. As Marco holds a Master’s in Classical Greek Philology from the University of Zurich, his research interests include also historical and comparative linguistics, particularly diachronic variation. His MA thesis examined the evolution of perfective periphrases from Ancient Greek to a modern Greek dialect in Southern Italy.

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