O uso do clítico na fala culta de Fortaleza

Abstract

This work aims at verifying the occurrence or the deletion of the clitic in pronominal verbs in the spoken language of educated speakers from Fortaleza, in different contexts. Opposing what the Traditional Grammar (TG) says about the pronominal verbs, the deletion of the clitic is being proved in some Brazilian regions, as attested Monteiro (1994) in the NURC corpus. It is up to evaluate if such phenomenon occurs in the spoken language of Fortaleza. For this task, we will be based on the variationist theory for us to analyze occurrences taken from a PORCUFORT corpus sample. The results point to a tendency to the disuse of those pronouns in the cult oral Portuguese of Fortaleza. They show the validity of a research that analyzes a broader and more current corpus, so we can verify if the phenomenon expanded or decreased.