Chapter published in:
Language Variation - European Perspectives VII: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), Malaga, June 2017Edited by Juan-Andrés Villena-Ponsoda, Francisco Díaz Montesinos, Antonio-Manuel Ávila-Muñoz and Matilde Vida-Castro
[Studies in Language Variation 22] 2019
► pp. 176–189
Panel and trend studies
Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese
Maria da Conceição de Paiva | Federal University of Rio de
Janeiro/CNPq
Maria Eugênia Lammoglia Duarte | Federal University of Rio de
Janeiro/CNPq
In this paper, we provide further evidence to the
discussion of the intersection of apparent time and real
time for the understanding of language change. We analyse
three variable processes in the spoken variety of Rio de
Janeiro: the anterior glide deletion in the diphthong
[ej], the replacement of the preposition A by PARA (‘to’)
in dative complements and the loss of null referential
pronominal subjects. By combining cross-sectional and
longitudinal evidence, we show that the observed tendency
in apparent time is confirmed for the replacement of A by
PARA and the implementation of overt referential pronouns.
We are facing continuing and irreversible communal
changes. In the case of [j] deletion, the predictions
obtained in apparent time are only partially confirmed.
The results from the longitudinal analyses suggest a
reversal of this process in the context of palatal
fricatives both in the community and in most individuals.
We claim that this reversal is a generalisation of a
stronger tendency to glide insertion in similar phonetic
contexts.
Keywords: glide deletion, dative PPs, null/overt subjects, apparent time, short term real time
Published online: 12 December 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.22.11dep
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.22.11dep
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