O argumento locativo dos verbos de movimento no português falado por crianças do terceiro ano de escolaridade

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is to contribute to the systematization of the interlanguage grammar of learners of Portuguese as a second language, with regard to the expression of the locative argument of verbs of movement, in the process of learning this language in Mozambique. For this study, we used an oral corpus produced by children in the third grade of elementary school. This dissertation consists of five chapters with the following contents: Chapter I, Introduction, presents the framework and delimitation of the object of study, the general objectives of the study and the research hypothesis. Chapter II, Bibliographical Review, develops the basic concepts for the study, namely verbs of movement, locative prepositions, semantic functions of direction, destination and place, and finally gives a brief retrospective on the question of the expression of destination in Mozambican Portuguese. Chapter III, Research Methodology, presents the methodology used to collect the corpus and the collection procedures. Information is provided on the characteristics of the informants, the constitution, organization and coding of the corpus. Chapter IV, Data Analysis, analyzes the data taking into account our starting hypothesis. Throughout the discussion, we will try to show that the selection of the locative preposition in by the verbs of movement is aimed at assigning a new function (TRADUÇAO NOSSA)