Variation of Verbal Agreement in Speech from North Paraná People

• Autor(a) principal: Botassini, Jacqueline Ortelan Maia
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Galuch, Laura Bellanda
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Signum: Estudos da Linguagem
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/45536
• topic: concordância verbal; língua falada; Sociolinguística Variacionista; Variação linguística; concordância verbal; língua falada; Verbal agreement; Spoken language; Variationist sociolinguistics; Linguistic variation; Verbal agreement; Spoken language

Normative grammars, almost invariably, state that verb agreement occurs once the verb inflects and conforms to the number and person of the subject. In speech, however, it happens that this linguistic phenomenon does not occur homogeneously and only in accordance with the rules prescribed by these grammars (according to CASTILHO, 2016; SCHERRE; NARO, 1998; VIEIRA, 2013). The marking or not of verbal agreement can occur motivated by factors that go beyond the linguistic. The present work, based on the Variationist Sociolinguistics methodology, examined the variation of verb agreement in speech from North Parana people. For the analysis, the extralinguistic factors: gender, age group and education level. And the linguistic factors degree of phonic salience and position of the subject in relation to the verb were observed as possible conditioners of the phenomenon under study. The research corpus consists of sixteen interviews with informants from North Parana belonging to the database of interviews recorded and transcribed by Botassini (2013). After the analysis, it was found that the linguistic factor position of the subject in relation to the verb and the extralinguistic factors gender and education level were the most determinant for the marking or not of verbal agreement.