A concordância verbal no português popular de Salvador: uma amostra da variação linguística na periferia da capital baiana

Abstract

This research was conducted as part of the study of Portuguese popular in the state of Bahia conducted by Project Sheds. The corpus was constituted through speech samples vernacular collected in two neighborhoods of Salvador, Itapuã and Liberdade, in order to perform an analysis variationist the verbal agreement with the 3rd person plural, from the theoretical and methodological principles of Sociolinguistics Variationist. To conduct the study, the dependent variable was established in binary terms, the dichotomy presence or absence of morpheme 3rd person plural and the linguistic variables and social phenomena that affect the supposedly focuson: a) completion and subject’s position, b) nominal consistency in the subject c) indication of the SN plural subject, verb types d) boss phonics e) form the last component that is before the verb f) age; g) sex; h) social network; i) education; j) level of media exposure. The results obtained with the data generated by VARBRUL demonstrated the peculiarities of the phenomenon in popular Portuguese in Salvador, pointing contexts conditioners realization of verb agreement.