Usage of the subjunctive mood in relative and completive clauses in African-Brazilian Portuguese

Authors

  • Vívian Meira UNEB

Keywords:

sociolinguistics, Portuguese language – subjunctive mood, black Brazilian communities – Bahia

Abstract

This works presents a study of the variation of the usage of subjunctive mood in relative and completive clauses on the speaking of four black rural Brazilian communities at the countryside of Bahia. Based on the theoretical and methodological framework of the Sociolinguistics of varieties and by means of VARBRUL software-set for the quantitative processing of the linguistic data, this work analyzed the adequacy of that variable process in the social and linguistic structure of the speaking communities. From the linguistic point-of-view, the subjunctive-mood forms occur more widely in two situations: (1) one of a morphological component, in which subjunctive forms are compatible with both verbs and with time when subjunctive X indicative opposition is more prominent; (2) the other of semantic component, in which the context of unreality tends towards a wider usage of subjunctive mood.

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Author Biography

Vívian Meira, UNEB

Mestre em Lingüística Histórica pela UFPB. Professora assistente de Língua Latina e Diversidade Lingüística do Brasil da Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB, campus XX. Publicou A variação no uso do modo subjuntivo: Um estudo sociolingüístico do português rural da comunidade de Morrinhos – BA no IV Congresso Internacional da Associação Brasileira de Lingüística - ABRALIN, 2005, Brasília, e Encontros e desencontros na realização da vibrante em coda silábica no Encontro Internacional de Fonética e Fonologia, Associação Brasileira de Fonética e Fonologia, 2004, São Luis, Maranhão.

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Published

2006-12-30

How to Cite

Meira, V. (2006). Usage of the subjunctive mood in relative and completive clauses in African-Brazilian Portuguese. Gragoatá, 11(21). Retrieved from https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33226

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 21 (2006): Linguistic usage

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Language Articles

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