O comportamento das línguas românicas em relação ao parâmetro do sujeito nulo

Juliana Esposito Marins; Humberto Soares da Silva

doi:10.5433/2237-4876.2009v12n1p191

The behavior of Romanic languages regarding the null subject parameter

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Juliana Esposito Marins Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Humberto Soares da Silva Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

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https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2009v12n1p191

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Null subject parameter, Italian, Spanish.

Abstract

Recent studies, bringing together the presuppositions from the Principles and Parameters Theory and from Sociolinguistics, have showed that Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is changing concerning Null Subject Parameter. To analyze this change, it is necessary to situate BP among other languages in order to know if its characteristics are really distant from the null subject languages. We examined the cultured speech of a variety of Italian and two varieties of Spanish. The results confirm our hypothesis that European Portuguese, Italian and Spanish share features that do not exist in BP anymore, or exist with low frequency, like covert subjects, despite having some peculiarities. These results confirm that a change is in progress in BP.

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Juliana Esposito Marins, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Mestrado em Letras (Letras Vernáculas) pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ. Detem-se na investigação do comportamento dos sujeitos referenciais em italiano para compará-lo ao PB, PE e espanhol.

Humberto Soares da Silva, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Graduado em Português-Espanhol pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2003); Mestradoem Letras Vernáculas/Língua Portuguesa pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2006). Tem experiência na área de Letras, com ênfase em Língua Portuguesa, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: português brasileiro, sujeito, português, espanhol e sujeito pronominal.

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2009-07-15

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MARINS, Juliana Esposito; SILVA, Humberto Soares da. The behavior of Romanic languages regarding the null subject parameter. Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, [S. l.], v. 12, n. 1, p. 191–216, 2009. DOI: 10.5433/2237-4876.2009v12n1p191. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/4464. Acesso em: 10 dec. 2025.

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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2009): Sociolinguística, Dialetologia e Geolinguística Pluridimensional

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