Complementos direcionais em afro-variedades de português e espanhol

Abstract

Este artigo traz um panorama descritivo sobre a complementação direcional dos verbos de movimento em afro-variedades de português e espanhol. O estudo se ocupa de amostras da África e da América Latina para mapear contrastes envolvendo o uso de preposições. As afro-variedades serão caracterizadas quanto a estratégias conservadoras e inovadoras de complementação, a partir do estudo de Gonçalves (2010) para o português de Moçambique. Nas amostras analisadas, as afro-variedades de português se mostram mais inovadoras que as do espanhol, apresentando padrões que não são usuais nas variedades ibéricas.

A Study on the Conceptual Structure of the Use of Prepositions in the Complement of Goal-oriented Motion Verbs in Brazilian Portuguese

“…Considering that 'source' represents in this study the type of register and its monitoring level, this outcome can be explained by the fact that CB is composed of formal written texts, representing the most monitored subcorpora of our dataset. Since this is -to the best of our knowledge -the first study that investigates the level of monitoring as a conditioning feature related to the investigated phenomenon, this result reinforces the hypothesis presented by Avelar (2017) that formal instruction exerts a strong pressure against the use of the preposition em 'in' with goal-oriented motion verbs, which allows the characterization of the use of a 'at' as artificial, in the sense that it is not learned in a natural way by children in the process of language acquisition. 'Profiling' plays an important role when the source is Blogs_Foruns, C-Oral and TecEM (node 2); i.e., action and neutral profiled tokens are more associated with the use of para 'to' (node 3: N = 116, with N = 64 para 'to'; 41 a 'at'; and 11 em 'in'), while locative profiled tokens are more associated with the use of em 'in' (node 4: N = 192, with N = 126 em 'in'; N = 38 para 'to'; N = 28 a 'at').…”

“…There is a tendency for the use of a 'at' in cb, which, in this study, represents the most formal and monitored register. This result is in consonance with the hypothesis that normative tradition exerts a strong pressure against the use of the preposition em 'in' with these verbs (Avelar, 2017). Regarding register, for further studies, it would be interesting to run a regression model with register as a random variable, in order to see the effect sizes of the semantic predictors without register playing a role.…”

“…The behavior observed in the CB occurrences with the three verbs does not coincide with previous studies about the investigated phenomenon (e.g., Vieira, 2009;Wiedemer, 2013;Wiedemer, 2015); however, it is relevant to remember that CB is composed of written texts published in Brazilian newspapers and represents, in our dataset, the most monitored subcorpus. In this sense, the use of the prepositions in these occurrences is highly influenced by the normative tradition, which exerts a strong pressure against the use of the preposition em 'in' with these verbs (Avelar, 2017).…”