Clitics ordering in the Brazilian Portuguese of the nineteenth century

• Grant number: 12/15385-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2012
• End date: November 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Erotilde Goreti Pezatti
• Grantee: Ana Carolina Silva Mendonça
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The project aims to investigate the placement of the clitics in Brazilian Portuguese, taking as a theoretical apparatus the Functional Discourse Grammar, developed by Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008). The objective is to investigate the principles that guide the ordering of the clitics in Brazilian Portuguese of the nineteenth century, to trace the path of change in the placement of these constituents in the clause. The material is occurrences extracted from the corpus of the Project for the History of Brazilian Portuguese, which is cataloged in the Platform Corporation, available on page https://sites.google.com/site/corporaphpb.(AU)