A variação da concordância nominal de número no sintagma nominal da comunidade caxiense

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the use of the variable nominal number agreement in the language spoken in the Caxias community, describe the linguistic and extralinguistic factors that contribute to number agreement in the Nominal Phrase and observe whether nominal number agreement is characterized as a variation. stable or changing number in progress, the SN, by providing variants with explicit plural marks [-s] and variant [Ф] in Brazilian Portuguese, contributes to the number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese presenting itself as a variable rule conditioned by factors linguistic and extralinguistic. This research, of a quantitative and descriptive nature, is based on the theoretical-methodological assumptions of Variationist Sociolinguistics, guided by William Labov (1972), Mollica (2003), Miranda (2014), among others. The research will be carried out in the sample of the ALFMA project, (MIRANDA, 2016), with the aim of identifying which groups of linguistic and extralinguistic factors condition or not the application of the nominal agreement rule. The results showed that the linguistic independent variant that significantly contributes to the use of the study variant is, therefore, the adjective in the grammatical class and the paroxytone as the stressed syllable and the third position in the nucleus. Therefore, the independent social variant that most uses nominal number agreement, in terms of sex, is men, education - higher education - and the age group is 18 to 30 years old.