O enfraquecimento da morfologia flexional verbal (Pessoa e número) no português de Moçambique

Abstract

The present investigation arises within the scope of studies that have been carried out in order to capture and describe the motivations that arise from the process of dialecting Portuguese in Mozambique. In particular, the study intends to make a structural description of the aspects of verbal agreement that occur in the language, with a view to presenting the rules adopted by the speakers. The study comprises five chapters, namely: Chapter I - Introduction - identifies the problem that will be analyzed, the methodology to be used to interpret the phenomenon, its explanation hypothesis and the theoretical framework adopted. Chapter II - Bibliographic Review - the general presentation of the Generative Grammar, the theoretical concepts useful for the analysis are highlighted, the Principles and Parameters Model, the Null Subject Parameter and its application to European Portuguese and Portuguese of Brazil. Chapter III - Research Methods - presents the form that presided over the collection and constitution of the corpus, the characterization of the informants who produced the sentences, the test results and the respective evaluation. Chapter IV - Data Analysis - describes the nature of verbal inflection weakening in PM, the syntactic consequences arising therefrom. and the valid explanatory hypothesis for the interpretation of the phenomenon is presented. Chapter V - Conclusions and Recommendations - the general conclusions of the research carried out and some work proposals for further research are presented.