Clitics in Brazil: literary demand through Jorge Amado

  • Ignacio Vázquez Universidad de Barcelona
Keywords: diachronic linguistics, grammar, clitics, Portuguese language

Abstract

From a syntactic perspective, the position of object pronouns in Portuguese speech today offers two possibilities: the European use (compulsory in Africa and Asia) and the American one. What began as a linguistic difference between Portugal and Brazil became a national issue. Dignifying that difference in writing -especially in literature- meant emancipation for the former colony (Brazil). Brazilian writer Jorge Amado helped to achieve this.

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Ignacio Vázquez, Universidad de Barcelona
Departamento de Filología Románica

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Vázquez I. (2012). Clitics in Brazil: literary demand through Jorge Amado. Revista de Filología Románica, 28, 115-124. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RFRM.2011.v28.37222
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