O uso do objeto direto anafórico em Cabinda, Angola

Sammanfattning: This thesis treats the use of the anaphoric direct object in Cabinda. Cabinda is a region in Angola in which the Portuguese language is omnipresent since some decades while it before that was mainly used by the Portuguese colonizers. Today, the younger generations speak Portuguese to some extent while the older speak little or no Portuguese. In this thesis, the four options of describing the anaphoric direct object in the Portuguese language in Cabinda is investigated through statistical analyzes of transcribed interviews with Cabinda students. Theories on linguistic contact are used to analyze and discuss the findings from the statistical analyses. It’s proved that the Angolan variety of Portuguese does follow neither the Brazilian nor the European norm but shows a unique configuration that indicates that some sort of language contact has been occurring. The extent of the language contact is difficult to measure from only this thesis, but the language contact has induced some language change.