As especificações de traços-phi do pronome possessivo 'seu' para as 2ª e 3ª pessoas gramaticais

Abstract

This study investigates the use of the possessive pronoun seu for both the 2nd and 3rd grammatical persons, a topic that remains underexplored in formal linguistic research. The research starts from the hypothesis that phi-features such as person, gender, and number, as well as the referents and antecedents of the possessive, are the factors influencing the shared use of seu for both 2nd and 3rd persons. The behavior of the possessive dele as a 3rd person possessive will be analyzed at specific points, in comparison to the possessive seu. The adopted methodology involves a review of the syntactic features of possessive pronouns, their relationship with personal pronouns, and the distribution of seu for the 2nd and 3rd persons. The study will be grounded in previous approaches from the literature that are relevant to our hypothesis, such as Ihsane (2003) and the three types of possessives, through which we will identify the typologies of the possessive seu; Perini (1985) and the discussion on the ambiguity found in the possessive pronoun seu for the 2nd and 3rd grammatical persons; Muller (1997) and the types of antecedents that distinguish the 3rd person uses of seu and dele; Menuzzi (2003) and the applications of bound variable and coreference, which will be applied to the possessive pronouns seu and dele, along with the analyses of strict identity and sloppy identity interpretations, which will be adapted to seu, the focus of this analysis. The analysis seeks to answer the central research question: Why can the possessive pronoun seu be used for both the 2nd and 3rd persons? In our investigation of the compatibility of the possessive pronoun seu with both the 2nd and 3rd persons, we will compare the behavior of this possessive with forms derived from Vossa Mercê, showing that both the possessive phrase and the pronominal phrase Vossa Mercê, as well as the 2nd person and 3rd person uses of the possessive pronoun seu, are examples of forms that exhibit distinct syntactic behaviors, while also sharing deictic and anaphoric characteristics.