Forms lead to forms: pronominal covariation in Brazilian Portuguese
Year: 2026
Type: dataset
Abstract: The research investigates the covariation among six pronominal variables of Brazilian Portuguese, based on semi-spontaneous speech data from 124 university students from Sergipe. The hypothesis predicts that structurally related variables covary with one another. To this end, the analyses combine Spearman correlation and PCA followed by cluster analysis. The results show partial support for the hypothesis: in the correlation analysis, only the pos2PS×pos3P pair was significant. The cluster analysis, in turn, revealed coherence among pro2PS, cli2PS, and pos2PS, a pattern not captured by linear correlation, while the mismatch between pro1PP and pos1PP persisted even in this analysis. It is concluded that structural relatedness is a necessary but not sufficient condition for covariation, which manifests more clearly in multivariate profiles than in isolated correlations.
Author: Siqueira, Manoel
Institution: Universidade Federal de Alagoas
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204156925