VARIATION, CHANGE AND GRAMATICALIZAÇÃO PROCESS OF DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS ILLE, ILLA, ILLUD FROM CLASSICAL LATIN TO DEFINITE ARTICLES OF THE PORTUGUESE OF BRAZIL

Abstract

This work intends to expatiate on the processes of change and variation of the Latin demonstrative pronouns third party, ille illa, illud who came to become the Portuguese of Brazil in today's definite articles. It is known, on the basis of linguistic functionalism, all human activity is based on language use which makes this language. From this perspective, it is not the grammar of a language that determines their uses, but the opposite. That justifies the different gramaticalization that processes through the use of grammar that is determining the grammatical categories of a language, making grammatical elements that typically belong to a given grammatical category if grammaticalized in others, yet not losing your prototypical function. The demonstrative pronouns third person, ille illa, illud in Latin had the role of mark in space as the determiner the grammatical person of the speech and at the same time its deictic function. However with the use of Latin in real situations the pronoun passed slowly in vernaculars that deployed from Vulgar Latin (Latin usualis) to position themselves and function as elements determinants of nouns and adjectives, which was subsequently baptized of definite articles. This work has as theoretical basis functionalism American language, more specifically on the notion of use, variation, change, processes of grammaticalization and prototypical function of grammatical categories. It can be concluded based on the use of languages that the current articles of the Portuguese of Brazil are the old demonstrative pronouns from classical Latin than Vulgar Latin if grammaticalized in determinants of Brazilian Portuguese and other Romance languages.