A abordagem da colocação pronominal em duas edições da Moderna Gramática Portuguesa, de E. Bechara (1961 e 1999): relações de (des)continuidade com a tradição gramatical do século XX.

Abstract

For centuries, Lusitanian Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese were considered as one language, through the sociopolitical context that established Brazil as an extension of Portugal. However, the year 1822, mark of Brazil‟s independence, triggered a new phase in the history and grammatization of the country, provoking discussions about the existence of a Brazilian language and its peculiarities. This process would develop in the next century, amid the paradigms of Philology and Linguistics. According to Gurgel (2008), the use of pronouns was one of the main syntactic topics debated in the nineteenth century, and the author concludes that the scientific period in which this syntactic phenomenon is approached has in fact a diversified character, both “philosophical” and “scientific”, considering pedagogical questions. This led us to a question about the treatment of this same topic after the paradigm shifts that occurred in the twentieth century. Evanildo Bechara stands out as one of the most significant authors to Brazilian grammar of the twentieth century, and his Moderna Gramática Portuguesa (MGP) is one of the most prestigious works. The present research had as main objective to understand the approach of the use of pronouns in two editions of the MGP, by E. Bechara (1961 and 1999), and its motivations and implications in the Brazilian process of Portuguese grammar in the second half of the twentieth century. As a general result, we highlight that Bechara's work goes through the second half of the 20th century establishing relations of continuity and discontinuity with the philological-normative grammatical tradition. This study is anchored in the theoretical-methodological field of Historiography of Linguistics, especially from the propositions and considerations of Murray (1994), Koerner (1989; 1996), Swiggers (2010; 2013), Altman (2012) and Batista (2013). Therefore, we consider internal and external aspects of the established cut, directing us to a critical perspective of the analysis of History and the study of language and language in Brazil.