Reanálise de estruturas locativas no judeu-espanhol oriental

Abstract

The present work is a study of a reanalysis process, as proposed b>' HARRIS & CAMPBELL (1995), that occurs in free relative clauses of Oriental Judeo-Spanish headed by ONDE, ADO, AONDE, DONDE, ADONDE, DO, ONDA, O or ANDE These particles, which will be called LOC along the dissertation, were initially classified as relative adverbs heading a relative clause with an elliptic verb in its superficial structure and then reanalyzed as a preposition with a basic locative sense, similar to the French 'chez'. The structure headed by LOC is not understood as a free relative clause anymore, becoming a locative adverbial complement. The subject of the relative clause becomes one of the constituents of this locative adverbial complement There are many linguistic and extra-linguistic factors that helped to trigger this process a) absence of antecedent, b) presence of LOC; c) elliptic copula verb after LOC; d) presence of a NP [+human] after LOC; e) minimal distance between LOC and the NP. 0 movement verb before LOC. From the socio-historical point of view, two different sources of syntactical borrowing could be proposed: i) the translations from the liturgical texts in Hebrew to Caique Judeo-Spanish; ii) the intense influence of French over the Sephardics of the Ottoman Empire. In this case, the process would be seen as a svntactic caique. The analysis was based on a corpus constituted of prose texts in Judeo-Spanish from the XX, XIX and XVI centuries Their data were described synchronically and thereafter analyzed diachronically. a necessary phase to explain the process, having in mind the Historical Linguistics principles of empirical basis by authors like BYNON (1986), COHEN (1989) and HARRIS & CAMPBELL (1995).