Estudo sociolinguístico da concordância verbal de 3ª pessoa do plural no português de São Tomé e Príncipe

Abstract

Exceto onde especificado diferentemente, a matéria publicada neste periódico é licenciada sob forma de uma licença Creative Commons -Atribuição 4. AbstRAct: In order to verify the existence of a variable rule in the verbal agreement of third person plural in Portuguese of Sao Tome and Principe, according to the Theory of Variation and Change, this study investigates the linguistic and extralinguistic factors that act on the phenomenon. Considering the principles of orderly heterogeneity, it was made multivariate analysis of data, collected from sociolinguistic interviews of the corpus VAPOR. The results obtained by the computer program GOLDVARB-X were interpreted in the light of previously raised hypothesis, giving special attention to some factors related to multilingualism that is strongly present in the region. In correlation with other varieties of Portuguese, the results show a significant preference for agreement marks, suggesting adoption of the European model. However, the rates obtained are similar to those found in studies on urban varieties of Brazilian Portuguese, which enables the establishment of a variable rule in the variety of Sao Tome. In addition, it was observed a strong actuation of extralinguistic factors on the phenomenon, which indicates more similarities with the Brazilian variety and which may bring hypotheses about the situations of multilingualism and its relationship with the simplification of verbal morphology in the future.

Padrões de Concordância Verbal de Terceira Pessoa Plural no Português de São Tomé e no Português de Moçambique

“…Semelhantemente ao que ocorre em Moçambique, em São Tomé os informantes de ensino fundamental mostram maior tendência ao desfavorecimento da 6 Destaca-se que, em Brandão;Vieira (2012), além das variáveis destacadas como relevantes por Vieira;Silva (2017), as autoras também obtiveram seleção estatística das variáveis faixa etária e saliência fônica na amostra que analisaram. Por sua vez, Vieira; Bazenga (2015) relacionam como variáveis significativas para a amostra o paralelismo, a posição do sujeito, a escolaridade, o sexo e o traço semântico do sujeito.…”