Sobre as sentenças coordenativa explicativa e subordinativa adverbial causal - uma análise de aspectos conflituantes em falantes angolanos

About the explanatory coordinating and causal adverbial subordinating sentences - an analysis of conflicting aspects in Angolan students

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the explanatory coordinative and causal adverbial subordinating sentences, in a bifurcated analysis of the conflicting aspects in Angolan ́s PA speakers. The research, from a theoretical and methodological point of view, is based on the principles of the epistemological and theoretical model of linguistic science from Haspelmath, (2000), Mattos & Silva (1989), Lobo (2001), Brito (2003), Cunha & Cintra (1989). To achieve the recommended objective, we established three research questions: (i) What are the main concepts of coordination and sentence subordination with an emphasis on explanatory and causal concepts? (ii) What syntactic and semantic properties are structural in coordinated and subordinate

sentences, with particular emphasis on explanatory and causal sentences? (iii) What is

the level of implicit knowledge of the language of PA speakers in relation to the interpretation and distinction of sentences that express a cause? The data used were obtained through a questionnaire survey, designed with the objective of evaluating AP speakers regarding their ability to distinguish an explanatory sentence from a causal sentence, inferring from there the criteria present in the grammar of these speakers that allow them to distinguish these sentences. Twenty (20) informants were interviewed, distributed according to social variables (age, mother tongue, area of residence and level of education) which made it possible to draw up a sociolinguistic profile of the informants, (ii) questions in which semantic knowledge is assessed, posing hypotheses of the sentences being explanatory sentences (not true cause) and other sentences relating to the pure cause. Thus, the results found show that the syntactic behavior of explanatory sentences brings them closer to adverbial subordination (cf. Dias, 1918), on the other hand, the foregoing of coordination by native PA speakers reinforces the idea that in Portuguese the conjunction “since ” is still in a grammaticalization phase, with consequently interpretive difficulties among PA speakers between coordination and subordination since in traditional grammars causal and explanatory connectors have been classified differently. Therefore, we recommend strengthening the teaching of semantic aspects of Portuguese, a crucial area of the Portuguese teaching process in Angola.