A very specific use of the clitic se

• Autor(a) principal: Morais, Fernanda Beatriz Caricari de
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Barbara, Leila
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Letras (Santa Maria. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsm.br/letras/article/view/20212
• topic: Clitic se; Scientific papers; Systemic Functional Linguistics; Clítico se; Artigo científico; LinguísticaSistêmico-Funcional

This paper analyzes a group of verbs whose behavior or meaning change when used either with or without the clitic se. Its multiple functions, one of its features, is one of the most interesting problem in the Portuguese and other languages such as French, Spanish and Italian. One of the controversies about it is the possibility of the indeterminate Subject being (see NUNES, 1991; MONTEIRO, 1994; BAGNO, 2000; CAMACHO, 2002, 2003). Systemic Functional Linguistics (HALLIDAY 1985, 1994; HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004),the theory underlying this paper, focuses language in use and allows for the analyzis of grammatical choices in spoken or written texts based on the context of culture and of situation, the ideational metafunction, the focus of this article. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the description of the clitic se in Portuguese, and help develop materials focusing the production and comprehension of texts.