A Realização de verbos no modo imperativo no português rural da comunidade quilombola de Montevidinha, oeste da Bahia

Abstract

In this research, It has discussed the phenomenon of the verbs in the imperative mood, which is defined by the current literature as a mood that expresses order or request (e.g.: diz/diga; canta/cante; coma/come) (ROCHA LIMA, 2011; AZEREDO, 2010; BECHARA, 2009; PERINI, 2005; CARVALHO, 2020; FAVARO, 2013, 2016; FERREIRA JUNIOR, 2011; CARDOSO, 2006, 2009; ALVES, 2008, 2009; SANTOS, 2016; SOUZA, 2019; SCHERRE et al, 2007; SCHERRE, 2007, etc.). The research corpus is based on the spontaneous speech of the speakers of the community of Montevidinha, provided by the Falares do Além São Francisco Project (Falem). The main motivation is the lack of research on the variation of the imperative mode in Brazilian Portuguese (PB), especially in the central-west region of Bahia state. The research is developed based on the scope of Sociolinguistics Theory (LABOV, 2008 [1972]; TARALLO, 1985). The result of the description of the data presents a pattern of imperative in the indicative mood in the community, categorically. The explanatory hypothesis is based on the fact that this variant of the Brazilian imperative mood would have been fixed in the native speech of members of the Montevidinha community (SCHERRE, 2012; PAREDES, SANTOS; OLIVEIRA 2000). It may have occurred because of two main factors: the period of intense contact between languages through the Irregular Linguistic Transmission (TLI) process (LUCCHESI, 2001; LUCCHESI; BAXTER, 2009), since the authors assume the emergence of unmarked language forms because it is an isolated community and its population is mostly descendants of enslaved refugees in quilombos; in addition, the proximity of this community to the Central-West Region of Brazil, where the pattern is the use of imperative in the indicative mood, would have been a factor for maintaining and fixing this linguistic features as observed in the corpus.