ENNova publicação: “Animacy and schooling in the production of null objects and accusative clitics in the acquisition of two varieties of Portuguese”
Maria Lobo, membro integrado do CLUNL e investigadora do grupo LiFE, é co-autora do trabalho “Animacy and schooling in the production of null objects and accusative clitics in the acquisition of two varieties of Portuguese”, um capítulo do livro Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective, recentemente publicado pela John Benjamins.
Abstract: “This study investigates the encoding of 3rd person co-referential direct objects in Brazilian (BP) and European (EP) varieties of Portuguese. Both varieties admit null objects, though they differ regarding the productivity of the accusative clitic — highly productive in EP; overridden by the strong pronoun in oral, informal BP. The implications of the type of pronominal direct object in each variety for the effect of animacy and the syntactic restrictions applying to the null object are considered, with the strong pronoun favouring [+ animate] antecedents. Our study reports an elicited production experiment, which was conducted with BP and EP-speaking pre-schoolers and schoolchildren. Adult speakers of each variety were presented with the same task in the oral and the written modalities. The results demonstrate differential sensitivity to animacy and syntactic context in the two varieties, with a stronger effect of schooling in BP, due to the late incorporation of the 3rd person accusative clitic.”
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- Lira Rosane; Lobo, Maria; Correa, Letícia Sicuro (2025). Animacy and schooling in the production of null objects and accusative clitics in the acquisition of two varieties of Portuguese. In: P. Barbosa; C. Flores, eds., Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective. John Benjamins, pp. 141–170. ISBN 9789027220035.