Existential constructions and the problem of linguistic evaluation

• Autor(a) principal: Vitório, Elyne Giselle de Santana Lima Aguiar
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Domínios de Lingu@gem
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/dominiosdelinguagem/article/view/40617
• topic: Ter existencial; Haver existencial; Concordância verbal; Avaliação linguística; “Ter” existential; “Haver” existential; Verbal agreement; Linguistic evaluation

Considering that the study of a speech community should not be exhausted in the description and characterization of its linguistic traits, it should also seek to make explicit its evaluative attitudes, because the prestige or stigma that a community associates with a given variant can accelerate or prevent a change in the language, we measured the subjective norms of the maceioense speakers in relation to the variation of “ter” and “haver” in existential constructions and the verbal agreement associated with these verbal forms. To do so, we use the Theory of Language Variation and Change (WEINREICH; LABOV; HERZOG, 1968; LABOV, 1972) and we used a subjective reaction test composed of 20 questions, which was applied to 60 maceioenses informants. Our data suggest not only that “ter” is the preferred existential verb, but, in the formal situation and in the imperfect, perfect and future of the present times, there is an increase in the choice of “haver”, which seems to indicate that we are before linguistic marker, that to “haver” and “ter” in the third person plural – 3PP are the preferred variants, being more frequent in the formal situation and at imperfect and perfect times, suggesting that there is no stigma in the use of these variants.