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Studies on Variation in Portuguese
Edited by Pilar P. Barbosa, Maria da Conceição de Paiva and Celeste Rodrigues
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 14] 2017
► pp. 302–320

Dative variation in the Portuguese of São Tomé

Rita Gonçalves | University of Lisbon, Portugal

Portuguese of São Tomé (pst) exhibits two strategies to express Recipients: double object constructions (DOC) and ditransitive prepositional constructions (DPC), which employ either the preposition a ‘to’ or the preposition para ‘toward’ (R. Gonçalves 2010). Using data from a spoken corpus, we will analyze to which extent linguistic and extra-linguistic variables can play a role in pst dative variation. Therefore, we will discuss whether it follows Rappaport-Hovav and Levin’s (2008) distinction between give-type verbs (core dative verbs), which occur in both DOC and DPC introduced by a functional preposition, and throw/send-type verbs (non-core dative verbs), which can occur in a DPC introduced either by a functional or directional preposition. We will further address the role of contact with Santome.

Keywords: varieties of Portuguese, Portuguese of São Tomé, dative alternation, core dative verbs vs., non-core dative verbs, functional vs. directional prepositions

Published online: 02 November 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.14.13gon

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