Critérios descritivos e prescritivos na colocação dos pronomes pessoais átonos na gramaticografia da língua portuguesa durante o século XIX

Abstract

The present work analyzes the proposals and judgements on the place-ment of unstressed personal pronouns (considering the three modes: enclisis, proclisis and mesoclisis) in Portuguese grammars published in the 19th century in Portugal and Brazil. It also studies the development of grammatical thinking about this aspect of language in that period, especially in the sense of setting - or not - prescriptive criteria for the three posi-tions of the clitics. We thus focus on when the prescriptive criteria appear in meta-gramma-tical texts, the degree of separation between the grammaticography of the Portuguese that is published in Portugal and that which comes from the Brazilian presses