A natureza do item seu e suas variações em sintagmas com função de vocativo no português brasileiro

Abstract

This doctoral study aims to describe the nature and variants of form in vocative phrases in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), with the assumption that the object being analysed cannot be conceived as a possessive pronoun or a reduction of the pronoun of address "senhor". To achieve this goal, we used the theoretical framework of Generative Theory, specifically its minimalist model. When reviewing the literature, we considered relevant studies, including those conducted by Cerqueira (1996), Müller (1997), Castro (2006), Adger (2002) and Carvalho (2002),which address the nature of the possessive pronominal form in order to distinguish it from our research object. Initially, we describe the syntactic context in which the item is realised in order to understand the syntactic-semantic relations involved. Then, through an empirical approach and using introspection data, we sought to identify the distinctive characteristics of the item in question in relation to the possessive pronoun. We concluded that, as analysed in the syntactic context, the item has no characteristics that distinguish it from the possessive pronoun.