Concordância nominal: um olhar sociolinguístico sobre a língua falada em Alagoas

Abstract

In this research, the number agreement in the noun phrase in the language spoken in Alagoas is analyzed based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of Variationist Sociolinguistics (LABOV, 2008 [1972]). To this end, speech samples from 36 natives of Maceió, 24 from Arapiraca and 24 from Delmiro Gouveia are analyzed, available in the database belonging to the PORTAL - Linguistic Variation in Alagoas Portuguese project. Participants were interviewed on subjects such as childhood, which refers to narration and description, and on controversial topics such as same- sex marriage, which makes it possible to argue, and were selected according to the following stratification: sex (female and male) , age group (between 18 and 35 years, between 40 and 55 years and above 65 years) and education (less than 9 years and more than 11 years). This work seeks to verify the correlation of the indication of plurality in the SN and the extralinguistic variables: education, age, sex and diatopy; as well as, with the linguistic variables: linear position, grammatical class, relation of the grammatical class with the nucleus, preceding marks and phonic salience. With the analysis of extralinguistic variables, it is observed that the education level and the municipality that the speaker resides are correlated with the use of the explicit plural indication in the SN, since the participants with a higher level of education and who reside in Maceió stand out as favoring this indication. In relation to the linguistic variables, it was found that previous marks, phonic salience and rammatical class correlate with the plural marking in the SN, since the factors 2nd position without previous formal mark, 3rd position with mixture of mark B (0- S-_), double plural marking, plural of words with singular ending in r, plural of words with singular ending in if determinants favor the explicit indication of plural.