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Estar + Gerúndio >i/I< Estar + Infinitivo Preposicionado No Português Brasileiro Oitocentista

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ID5837641
AuthorsGustavo Micael Gomes Martins (corresponding author)
Year2019
Publication date2019-08-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeTHESIS
PublisherUniversidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/d.8.2019.tde-26082019-100701
OpenAlexW2970793757
LanguagePT
References cited14

Introduction: This research dove into the variation between estar + gerund and estar + a + infinitive in the XIXth century Brazilian Portuguese of five major Imperial Provinces (Bahia, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo) and its relations with the Imperial nation building project.The two aforementioned constructions are understood by native speakers to be highly pronounced markers of the Brazilian and European varieties of Portuguese, respectively, a situation which was at least partially mirrored during the Brazilian Empire era.Objectives: To investigate whether the above mentioned constructions where as strongly associated with a "Brazilian identity" during Imperial Times as they are now.Methodology: A conceptualization of the XIXth century mindset on nationhood and language was built through the Reading of contemporary discourses on history, culture and language published by key figures of Brazilian intellectuality.From this, fifteen of authors split among the five regions where elected as "model speakers" and some of their work taken as material basis for the corpus.The data acquired from this was then categorized according to social and linguistic criteria and the results were then analyzed statistically analyzed.Results: The actual usage of the two variants has shown itself to be highly diversified, its usage rates varyingly significantly even among author of the same region or political affiliation.Regional variation, however, when taken by itself was found out to be significant both when taken in the larger macro regional level (southeast versus northeast) but also among provinces, with a higher rate of usage of estar + a +infinitive in the southeast and especially in the province of Rio de Janeiro.Linguistic factors like the presence of interpolation or certain types of surrounding words have also been be significantly correlated to the variable albeit the reason for that remains inconclusive.Conclusions: In a general sense, linguistic discourse and linguistic praxis strongly differ from each other and the variation between the two constructions appears to be more strongly tied to regional and linguistic factors than social factors

Art · Conceptualization · Genealogy · Geography · Humanities · Infinitive · Linguistics · Portuguese · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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