Análise variacionista do clítico das estruturas de-transitivas mediais no português oral popular de Fortaleza

Abstract

This dissertation is about the behavior of the clitic of the middle de-transitive structures concerning to the alternance of absence/ presence in the fortalezense popular spoken language. Theoretically this work has been anchored in the association of the postulates of the Sociolinguistic Analysis (LABOV, 1963, 1972, 1978, 1982, 1994, 2001; WEINER; LABOV, 1977; WEINREICH; LABOV; HERZOG, 2006) and the North American Linguistic Functionalism (GIVÓN, 1984, 1993, 1995, 2001), resulting in the theoretical configuration called Sociofunctionalism (TAVARES, 2003). Concerning to methodological aspects, the research had a sample of 36 inquiries of Dialogue-type between Informant and Documenter (DID), extracted from the database of the Norma Oral do Português Popular de Fortaleza (NORPOFOR). Some groups of linguistic (verbal form, type of change indicated by the verb, subject grammatical person and modality) and extralinguistic factors (age group, gender and schooling) which can influence the variable context studied were triggered. The 626 collected data have gone through statistics treatment by the use of the computational program GOLDVARB X, which performed a multivariate round of the phenomenon by the structured accomodation of the occurences and controlled variables. The results have showed the primacy of the presence in relation to the absence. Through the order of statistics selection, the following have appeared as significative to the phenomenon: a) age group – with the predominance of absence of the medium pronominal marker among the elders and the presence among the youngers; b) the grammatical person of the subject – with propensity of abscence in the 1st and the presence in the 2nd and in the 3rd; c) the type of chance indicated by the verb – with propensity of absence in the factors of position, physical state and condition and of the presence in the factor of mental state; d) the schooling – with propensity of absence among the informants who are from 9 to 11 years of study and the presence among the ones who are from 0 to 4 years and from 5 to 8 years of study. It was concluded, then, the medium clitic is going through a process of variation in the popular oral Portuguese spoken in Fortaleza, according to the influence of internal and external variables to the language.