Lexicalized Unstressed Pronouns Patterns: A Study Based on Corpus Linguistics

Authors

  • Helenice Serikaku Faculdade Sumaré, São Paulo

Keywords:

PAL, Corpus Linguistics, Usage Patterns and Concordance Lines.

Abstract

Brazilian learners of Spanish as a foreign language frequently have difficulties with unstressed pronouns usage. The difficulty not only concerns using these pronouns with their canonic function of object, but without this function ─ case known as lexicalized unstressed pronouns (PAL). This research aims to identify patterns of PAL as well verbs that co-occur with PAL according to Corpus Linguistics framework and its methodological resources (BERBER SARDINHA, 2000). This paper intended to contribute to a field scarce of studies which is important to pedagogical needs of Brazilian learners of SFL.

Author Biography

Helenice Serikaku, Faculdade Sumaré, São Paulo

Helenice Serikaku, Master Degree in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUCSP). She has been teaching Portuguese and Spanish Language and Literature at the Faculdade Sumaré and she is a Spanish teacher in Sao Caetano do Sul City Government school.

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Vol. 36 No. 2 (2015)

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