A quantificação comparativa e as relações de ordem no português oral de Moçambique

Abstract

The present work is intended to fulfill one of the requirements for obtaining the Degree in Linguistics, stipulated by the Faculty of Arts. This requirement is the submission of a Project Work (TP). This Project Work fits into the area of ​​Descriptive Linguistics of Portuguese and addresses aspects related to the morphology and syntax of Mozambican Portuguese (PM) in relation to European Portuguese (PE). It is the use of the adverbial quantifiers "more", "too" and "too" in Portuguese from Mozambique (PM). The work is divided into four parts: The first part (Chapter 2) presents the theme and the reasons that dictated the choice of topic. The second part (Chapter 3) deals with the literature review, in which the main concepts about quantifiers are addressed and some NP linguistic strategies for the grading of adjectives and verbs are presented. The third part (Chapter 4) presents the research hypotheses and preliminary analysis made to the available PM data. The fourth part (chapter 5 ) presents the proposed research methodology for collecting additional data in order to validate or not the hypotheses defined in chapter 4. It also presents the impact prediction, that is, what we hope to achieve with the study what we propose to carry out.