The existential verbs ter and haver in the Portuguese spoken in Luanda-Angola

• Autor(a) principal: Araujo, Silvana Silva de Farias
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Dantas, Nathalia dos Santos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: letrônica
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/letronica/article/view/24809
• topic: Verbs ter and haver; Portugueses of Luanda; Existencial Verbs.; Verbos ter e haver; Português luandense; Verbos existenciais.; Verbos ter e haver; Português luandense; Verbos existenciais.

Within the theoretical and methodological framework of the Variationist Sociolinguistics, it researches the variation into the use of the verbs to have (ter/haver) in existential constructions, with oral data from the Portuguese spoken in Luanda (PL). It aims to contribute to the comprehension about the nature of the African Portuguese varieties. The results show that there is a structured variation in the PL, being the existential form of the verb “ter” widely used, with a frequency of 42% and it is increased by the low schooling factor; although, in general terms, the verb “haver” prevails in the existential structures, with a frequency of 58%. The results are analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively in apparent time. The data were collected in the speech of 23 informants in sociolinguistic interviews belonging to the collection of the project “In search of the roots of Brazilian Portuguese” and “A verbal agreement in Luanda Angola: elements for discussion on the formation of Brazilian Portuguese”, both based at State University of Feira de Santana. In this sense, seeking to contribute to the studies on the formation of Brazilian sociolinguistic reality, it is believed that it is important to conduct studies that focus on data collected in other continents that not only European - as proposed Petter (2007) - because, thus, it becomes possible to compare the Brazilian and African varieties of Portuguese, expanding the debate on the influence of language contact in the formation of these varieties and expand the discussion of the role of linguistic and sociocultural factors in linguistic phenomena variables.