Banca de DEFESA: LARISSA DE SANTANA SILVA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : LARISSA DE SANTANA SILVA
DATA : 15/10/2020
HORA: 09:00
LOCAL: ILUFBA
TÍTULO:

 

SUBJECT DELETION IN THE CREOLE PORTUGUESE OF MALACCA (MALAYSIA)

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Sociolinguístics. Variation. Pronominal subject. Null subject. Creole language. Malacca.

 

PÁGINAS: 105
GRANDE ÁREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Lingüística
SUBÁREA: Sociolingüística e Dialetologia
RESUMO:

This dissertation investigates variation in the deletion of the subject in the grammar of the Portuguese lexified creole language of Malacca, known as kristang, a phenomenon initially reported by Baxter (1988). The study focuses on the dependent variable, the pronominal subject, in terms of two variants: actual pronominal subject and null subject. The main interest of the study is to investigate and describe the structural, discursive (pragmatic) and extralinguistic conditions that permit null subject pronouns in kristang. Thus, it is intended to situate kristang in relation to traditional and recent typological proposals concerning the null subject parameter and to contribute knowledge to the comparative typology of Portuguese-based Creoles in Asia. As the general null subject  rate in the corpus in focus is below 50%, the study assumes the initial hypothesis that Kristang would be a partial null subject language (D’ALESSANDRO, 2015). To evaluate this hypothesis, and to investigate the sociolinguistic profile of null subject in this linguistic community, the study adopts the theoretical-methodological framework of Labovian Variationist Sociolinguistics (LABOV, 2008 [1972]). Based on characteristics of null subject systems (D’ALESSANDRO, 2015; HOLMBERG, NAYADU and SHEEHAN 2009), a set of hypotheses was formulated and instrumentalized to study the variation observed in data from eighteen sociolinguistic interviews.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1878077 - ALAN NORMAN BAXTER
Externo à Instituição - LANUZA LIMA SANTOS
Externo à Instituição - MANUELE BANDEIRA DE ANDRADE LIMA - UNILAB