A ordem N-Adj e Adj-N em corpora dos séculos XVIII e XX do português brasileiro

Abstract

This study had the objective of verifying the occurrences of the N-Adj order and Adj-N order in corpora of written Brazilian Portuguese of 18th century and 20th century of journalistic genre. The first was extracted of the site Corpus Histórico do Português Tycho-Brahe (GALVES; ANDRADE; FARIA, 2017) and the second one, of the Banco do Português (SARDINHA, 2003) in total of 100 analyzed occurrences of each one. This research had the objective of explaining how the occurrence of preposition and postposition of the adjectives are related to the journalistic text and the motivations that can be investigated. This study had the purpose of establishing correlations between the universal that refers to the order of name and adjective proposed by Greenberg (1983) and refuted by Dryer (1988). The data shows that the choice of the position of adjective is motivated by semantics and discursive factors. This present diachronic study intends to reaffirm that the language, certainly, serves the discursive necessity.