Alternância dativa no português popular de Salvador

Abstract

The Brazilian Portuguese has as main structure in dative constructions of the order verb-direct object and indirect object governed by the preposition “a” or “para” (V SNOD SPOI), called dative preposition construction (CDP) and exemplified in “Eles dava o trató pra gente”. However, as well as in some Creoles and in English, it exists in the afro-brazilian portuguese the construction where the indirect object is placed right before indirect object, without the preposition (V SNOI SNOD), called double object construction (COD) and exemplified in “Deu o Japonês vinte mil”, this possibility of two constructions for dative structure is called, in this research, Alternância Dativa. When analyzing such variation in afro-brazilian portuguese and in popular portuguese of the interior of the State of Bahia, as well as the municipal districts of Poções and Santo Antônio de Jesus, in previous studies, we looked for relevant empiric evidence of the importance of contact among languages in the construction of the brazilian linguistic reality. This dissertation analyzes, under the methodological theoretical focus of the variationist sociolinguistics, the realization of the dative alternation in the popular portuguese of Salvador. The work has as corpus some vernacular speech samples of four districts of the city of Salvador: Liberdade, Itapuã, Plataforma e Cajazeira; and the metropolitan area of Lauro de Freitas and seeks to complete the researchs about Alternância Dativa in the popular Portuguese of the State of Bahia, thus closing the continuum about possible evidences of linguistic contact in the developing of Brazilian Portuguese (PB). The corpus is composed of 60 interviews done in places aforementioned with residents low or no schooling. An exhaustive rising of data from the analyzed corpus, 664 occurrences were collected, 92,5% were CDP constructions and 7,5% were COD. The results of the quantitative analysis of the data revealed the linguistic factors that condition the phenomenon in focus, being possible to also notice a changing process in course of the disappearance of COD in the popular portuguese of the interior of the State of Bahia, due to the linguistic leveling process coming from the influence that the great urban centers have on the interior regions of the country.