Pronomes nulos na posição de sujeito no português de Angola - um estudo preliminar

Abstract

In this article we present a preliminary study of pronouns in subject position in the Portuguese of Angola (PA), based on data obtained in Chavagne (2005). The focus of our analysis is the presence/absence of pronouns in this variant of African Portuguese, aiming at an initial comparison with data of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and of European Portuguese (EP). It has been pointed out in the literature that BP shows a reduction in the occurrence of null pronouns in subject position, differing in this respect from EP. The analysis of the PA data concerning the Null Subject Parameter includes this variant of Portuguese as a null subject language, olike EP. However, like BP but unlike Ep, Portuguese fills the first person singular and plural in the subject position more than in the other persons. In Brazilian Portuguese, this phenomenon was describe in Cyrino, Duarte & Kato (2000).

Keywords

• Pronouns in subject position
• null subject parameter
• Portuguese of Angola
• BrazilianPortuguese
• European Portuguese