A NEW DESCRIPTION OF THE SYNTAX OF ‘STANDARD PORTUGUESE’

Abstract

This article takes as a starting point Perini’s (1985) proposal, according to which a new description of the grammar of standard Portuguese in the light of linguistic findings and based on a corpus of real data from technical and journalistic literature was imperative. Some results from contemporary writing reveal that such a description must take into account its variable character, exhibiting a mixture of features of European Portuguese (the target grammar of school) and of Brazilian Portuguese.

Keywords

• escrita padrão
• gramática da fala
• gramática da escrita