O uso do pronome se como índice de indeterminação do sujeito em sentenças transitivas diretas no Português do Brasil

Abstract

This paper presents a study about the use of the pronoun SE as an index of indeterminacy of the subject in direct transitive sentences in Brazilian Portuguese, having the generative grammar as theoretical assumptions. We will study in particular the non-standard concordance that the speaker performs in this type of construction, besides the change in the perception of the sentence's subject, contradicting thus the traditional grammar. The choice of this phenomenon for a deeper research is justified by its high frequency of use in our language, especially in advertisements. This research, with a bibliographic nature, will show the traditional view of grammar of Cunha (1976), Lima (2000) and Bechara (2003) and linguistic theories about the subject in question presents in previous studies by Nunes (1991), Bagno (2000), Scherre (2005) and Brito (2007). The study will depart from the traditional view of grammar that can later be analyzed the observed changes regarding the use of the pronoun SE as “apassivador” particle or as an index of indeterminacy of the subject. Finally, we will present the analysis of records of advertisements which the speaker uses the pronoun SE, seeking in particular, the use of this pronoun in direct transitive sentences, which is the focus of this paper.