Do contato linguístico à transmissão linguística irregular: o emprego da concordância no português

Abstract

This Dissertation, entitled From linguistic contact to irregular linguistic transmission: the use of Portuguese concordance, is part of the studies on the linguistic contact existing in Brazilian Portuguese and its effects on the construction of popular Portuguese, which acts as a variety of the standard norm, active today. The standard rule of verbal agreement consists of agreement between the subject and the verb in number and person, however, in the popular variant, this rule does not apply with certain frequency. Normally the plural mark focuses on the subject. The same phenomenon can be considered in relation to nominal agreement. As a Portuguese Language teacher in Basic Education, it was possible to identify the strong presence of this variant in students' writing. Through the work O Português Afro-brasileiro, by professor Dante Lucchesi (2009), we arrived at one of the theoretical lines addressed - irregular linguistic transmission -, which he attributes to the reduction of the inflectional morphology of verbs as a sociolinguistic factor for the popular variant of verbal agreement. Works such as Guy (1981) have already discussed this hypothesis using interviews with workers and farmers as a methodology. It is important to highlight the studies by Naro and Scherre (1997; 2007), who also discuss the popular variant from another theoretical perspective, that of secular drift. Twenty texts produced by third-year high school students were selected as a corpus for qualitative analysis, in which the variants discussed here were verified. It is hoped that the present study can contribute in some way to teaching activities in Portuguese language classes