A concordância verbal em número no discurso escrito de estudantes universitários Moçambicanos

Abstract

The general objective of this research is to contribute to the systematization of the grammar of Mozambican Portuguese, based on the structural description of the properties of SN/SU, with regard to the agreement in number between the subject and the verb in the sentence. In this study, we used as a basis a written corpus of sentences produced by 1st and 2nd year university students on degree courses in Portuguese Teaching, Translation and Interpreting of Portuguese/English and Portuguese/French. This dissertation is made up of the following chapters: In Chapter I - Introduction - we present, in general terms, the framework of the research, the delimitation of the object of the study, the objectives that dictated the development of the research, the definition of the research area in which it is circumscribed and the research problem. Chapter II - Bibliographical Review - presents the phenomenon of agreement in natural languages, the general rules of agreement and their variation in European Portuguese as well as in MP, and provides a bibliographical review of studies on the subject of agreement in MP. In Chapter III - Research Methodology - we present the procedures adopted to collect the empirical data, the constitution and organization of this data, the characterization of the informants and their coding.In Chapter IV - Data Analysis - we describe the nature of the deviations in verb number agreement in PM, the syntactic consequences of these deviations and present the general rules for these deviations. In Chapter V - Conclusions and Recommendations - we present our conclusions on the issue of subject-verb agreement in PM, as well as some recommendations to be taken into account in future studies of this kind.