A variacionist study on the existentials ‘ter’ and ‘haver’ based on ALiB data of Alagoas, Ceará and Piauí

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Aluiza Alves de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Viana, Rakel Beserra de Macedo, Lavor, Cassio Murilio Alves de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Confluência
• Texto Completo: https://revistaconfluencia.org.br/rc/article/view/362
• topic: Variationist sociolinguistics; existential verbs; ALiB.; Sociolinguística variacionista; verbos existenciais; ALiB.

This paper deals with the variable use of the verbs ‘ter’ and ‘haver’ regarding the data taken from the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil – AliB, including Alagoas, Ceará and Piauí (MOTA; CARDODO, 2009; CARDOSO; MOTA, 2012). Its conclusions are based on theoretical and methodological assumptions of Variationist Sociolinguistics (LABOV, [1972] 2008; WEINREICH et al., [1968] 2006). In this purpose, the authors analyze the speech of 84 informants, distributed into 21 municipalities of the three States mentioned above. The variables gender, age, location, type of questionnaire and verbal form were controlled. The data were submitted to the Goldvarb X program with the following results: the verb ‘ter’ obtained total occurrences higher than 96%, allied to the age group I and the present tense, whereas for ‘haver’ the age group II and the past tense were the protagonists, presenting a tendency for a changing process from ‘ter’ to ‘haver’.