Variation in Constructions with se: a Challenge for Teaching Portuguese

Authors

  • Angela Marina Bravin dos Santos Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2236-4242.v27i1p76-86

Keywords:

Sociolinguistic, Linguistic variation, Indeterminacy of the subject, Constructions with if, Portuguese teaching.

Abstract

This article discusses the complexity underlying the study, in Brazilian schools, of constructions with direct transitive verbs combined with the particle “if”. To this end, the start point is the results of a sociolinguistic survey conducted in academic texts produced by the publishers of UFRRJ. The research is based on the Theory of Variation and Change (WEINREICH, LABOV, HERZOG, 1968), aiming at analyzing the behavior of such variable constructions in contexts of indeterminacy of the subject, in order to show that the difficulty of the student in understanding them is the fact that the grammatical tradition considers them as passive, but actually they are active forms with the feature [+arbitrary reference], varying with the 1st person of plural.

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Author Biography

  • Angela Marina Bravin dos Santos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
    Professora de  Língua Portuguesa do Departamento de Letras e Comunicação da UFRRJ.

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Published

2014-06-30

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 1 (2014): Grammatical Theories: grammar, usage and linguistic variation in contexts of native and foreign language

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How to Cite

SANTOS, Angela Marina Bravin dos. Variation in Constructions with se: a Challenge for Teaching Portuguese. Linha D’Água, São Paulo, v. 27, n. 1, p. 76–86, 2014. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2236-4242.v27i1p76-86. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/linhadagua/article/view/77929.. Acesso em: 15 may. 2024.