USE AND “CONSTRAINT” OF THE VERB IN THE ANGOLAN VARIETY OF PORTUGUESE

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.8208622610035

• Palavras-chave: ..

• Keywords: ..

• Abstract:

  The Portuguese language in Angola has been the subject of various studies in the fields of linguistics and sociolinguistics, particularly in studies on varieties of Portuguese, standard language, lexicology, and lexicography. Since the verb has been relegated to the background, we have undertaken a descriptive-interpretive analysis that contributes to the understanding of verbal forms in the Angolan context, as we have identified significant gaps in the use of verb tenses in Angola. In Angola, there are numerous studies on Angolan Portuguese, based on the description of the variety of Portuguese, that is, on the contact between the Portuguese language and local languages. For this reason, and because we believe that education in Angola, given the complexity of the Portuguese verbal system, does not focus sufficiently on the teaching of verbs, we set out to describe and analyze these utterances with a view to achieving the following objectives: a) to analyze and describe verbal forms in speakers’ discourse; b) to contribute to the study of the verbal system in Angola.
  The main focus of this study lies in the morphological variation of certain verbs found in the Angolan Portuguese Variety (VPA), specifically regarding the endings assigned to these verb forms. We aim to determine whether the mood-tense and number-person endings are influenced by other verb forms and tenses.  To this end, we will present the concepts of morphology by Borba (1979) and Barbosa (1994), of the verb by Câmara Jr. (1997), of the morpheme by Rio-Torto (1999), and of verbal inflection by Castilho (2010) and Mota (2020).