Constructions with SE in African varieties of Portuguese

• Autor(a) principal: Mendes, Amália
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Estrela, Antónia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/51997

Portuguese is the official language of five African countries, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and S. Tome and Principe. In the case of Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and S. Tome and Principe, Creole languages have emerged and are widely used, resulting in Portuguese being spoken by a minority, while in Angola and Mozambique the number of Portuguese speakers has increased since independence from Portugal (in 1975) and Portuguese has established itself as a factor of national unity, in the face of a large diversity of languages spoken by the population. Five corpora of these African varieties of Portuguese (AVP) have recently been compiled (Bacelar do Nascimento et al. 2006) and have enabled initial contrastive studies on the lexicon and on the syntax, pointing to specific linguistic aspects where AVP differ from the European Portuguese (EP) norm. This paper will focus on the specific case of constructions with SE, ranging from reflexive and reciprocal, intrinsically pronominal, passive, impersonal or anticausative, under a contrastive perspective with EP, and will be based on data collected from the spoken subpart of the Corpus Africa.