Crioulo cabo-verdiano e papiamento: estudo comparativo de demonstrativos em anáfora no gênero textual de notícia

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze comparatively demonstratives in Cape Verdean Creole and Papiamento on the function of anaphora in the written modality. From the theoreticalmethodological point of view, this study was based on the typological-functional theoretical model of Givón (2001) and the descriptive model of Halliday and Hasan (1976), based on a corpus composed of data extracted from texts from textual genre of news. Two hypotheses were tested, which could be proven. The first hypothesis was that the anaphoric function is prototypically coded by a specific form in each language, which was confirmed, since it was found that, in Cape Verdean Creole, the prototype form used for this function was es and, in papiamento, it was e...aki/esaki. The second hypothesis was that other forms may appear to perform this function exceptionally, which was also confirmed, since the use of kel/kes and kel li was found to perform the function of anaphora in Cape Verdean Creole and of e...ei/esei and e...ayá in the Papiamento. In the case of Cape Verdean Creole, alternative forms for expressing anaphora may occur for two reasons: (a) when there is a demonstrative expression with demonstrative in the nuclear position (use of kel li) and (b) when the is the intention of activating knowledge shared by the speaker (use of kel/kes). However, there is also the possibility of kel/kes occurring in contexts other than the two previously described, which means that is linguistic variation in this domain. In the case of Papiamento, alternative forms for expressing anaphora may occur to encode different degrees of distance from the place of enunciation in the case of temporal demonstrative expressions: it is used e...ayá to mark distant past, e...ei to mark indefinite or near past and e...aki to mark near future. However, there is also the existence of linguistic variation, the use of e...aki was found in temporal demonstrative expression to mark near past, as e...ei does prototipically, and also the use of e...ei/esei in non-temporal demonstrative expressions, as e...aki/esaki do prototipically.