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- Title
Cambiamenti morfo-sintattici nel dialetto trentino di Piracicaba.
- Authors
Cordin, Patrizia; Degasperi, Leonardo
- Abstract
The paper focuses on two morpho-syntactic phenomena of the dialect spoken by heritage speakers of Trentino in Piracicaba, a city in the state of San Paolo, Brazil. The two investigated phenomena are: a) the selection of auxiliaries with some classes of verbs (pronominal, weak unaccusative and meteorological verbs); b) the use of the partitive clitic ne with quantified pronominal objects. To collect the relevant data, a questionnaire was administered to six speakers in Trentino and six speakers in Brazil. The results show a clear distinction between the sentences produced by Brazilian speakers older than 70 years who still use the original dialectal structures, and the sentences produced by Brazilian speakers younger than 70 years, in which both attrition and contact with the Portuguese language lead to simplified structures.
- Subjects
PIRACICABA (Brazil); VERBS; CLITICS (Grammar); PRONOMINALS (Grammar); LANGUAGE &; languages; DIALECTS
- Publication
Vox Romanica: Annales Helvetici Explorandis Linguis Romanicis Destinati, 2020, Vol 79, p41
- ISSN
0042-899X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2357/VOX-2020-003