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Strong and weak personal pronoums in two languages of different modalities, Portuguese Sign Language and European Portuguese: an exploratory study

Author(s): Morgado, Celda ; Brito, Ana Maria

Date: 2019

Origin: Sensos-e

Subject(s): Portuguese Sign Language; Referentiality; Weak pronouns; Syntactic types of verbs; Strong pronouns; Língua Gestual Portuguesa; Referencialidade; Pronomes fortes; Pronomes fracos


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The main goal of this paper is to problematize the distinction between strong and weak personal pronouns in Portuguese Sign Language, briefly comparing this language with European Portuguese, based on a brief exploratory study of data collected in the Spread the Sign dictionary. The study shows that Portuguese Sign Language has tendentially explicit non-null subject pronouns in affirmative sentences and has strong and weak pronouns, highly dependent on the syntactic position and the syntactic types of verbs.

O objetivo central deste artigo consiste em problematizar a distinção entre pronomes pessoais fortes e pronomes pessoais fracos em Língua Gestual Portuguesa, comparando brevemente esta língua com o Português Europeu, com base num breve estudo exploratório de dados recolhidos no dicionário Spread the Sign. O estudo mostra que a Língua Gestual Portuguesa, além de ter sujeito tendencialmente realizado em frases afirmativas, tem pronomes fortes e fracos, altamente dependentes quer da posição sintática quer dos tipos sintáticos de verbos. Artigo Completo

Document Type Journal article
Language English
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