A variação do objeto direto anafórico na fala dos moradores do Município de Tefé - AM

Abstract

The present quantitative research analyzed the use of the direct anaphoric object in the speech of the residents of the municipality of Tefé - AM. In addition, in Tefeense speech, variants of the anaphoric direct object were described; the linguistic and extra-linguistic factor groups that influenced the occurrences of the anaphoric direct object variants were identified; and the Tefeense speech was characterized by the most expressive appropriation of one of the variants of the anaphoric direct object. The research was based on the Theory of Variation and Linguistic Change (LABOV, 2008 [1972]). Twelve informants participated in this study belonging to three age groups were selected: I (18 - 35), II (36 - 55) and III (56 onwards). In each age group, there were 2 informants of both genders, male and female, belonging to two levels of education (with 4 to 8 years of schooling and with 9 to 11 years of schooling). In the analysis of the data, linguistic conditioners (referring animacity, verbal inflection of number) and extralinguistic conditions (age, sex and education) were taken into account. The results of this work show that the accusative clitic variant is in disuse in the speech of the investigated community. On the other hand, the null object (absence of the direct object) was the most incident form in all groups of factors, both linguistic and extralinguistic; while the lexical pronoun (he, she, it, they) was the second option of resuming the anaphoric direct object, and the nominal phrase (repetition of the full SN) obtained a lower percentage in all contexts.