Submitted by Ricardo Cedraz Duque Moliterno (ricardo.moliterno@uefs.br) on 2016-09-06T20:52:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o - texto completo PDF.pdf: 1916654 bytes, checksum: 5da1850898130e05e3a0797ecfea5037 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-06T20:52:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o - texto completo PDF.pdf: 1916654 bytes, checksum: 5da1850898130e05e3a0797ecfea5037 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-13 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / This study has the main objective to investigate the replacement of the preposition in by ni, fairly frequent phenomenon in speech and sometimes in writing. From comparisons between varieties of Portuguese (Brazil and Africa), it is conjectured that this morphological change has to do with influences from some African languages which had contact with the Portuguese in the period of colonization / exploration of these places. In addition, note that the use of ni is performed by speakers from rural and urban, there is the hypothesis that possibly there is a continuum that explain its dissemination in Brazilian Portuguese. Thus, from the quantitative methodology Labovian inspiration, we analyze speech from the Portuguese rural, popular and cult of Feira de Santana to evaluate the hypothesis of a rural-urban continuum, taking into account the use of this morphological trait . The results of the rounds indicate that the rural Portuguese and worship favor the use of ni with the relative weighting of .65 and .52, respectively. The relative weight of .33 of popular Portuguese factor, in turn, indicates that this variety does not favor implementation of this variant. The fact that there are so discrepant values among them is explained from the historical and social characteristics of each language community. But what draws the most attention in this research is the analysis of the results of the linguistic variables corroborate the idea of a relationship between the Portuguese of Brazil and some African languages with regard to the use of ni. / O presente estudo tem o principal objetivo de investigar a substitui??o da preposi??o em por ni, fen?meno bastante recorrente na fala e, algumas vezes, na escrita. A partir de compara??es feitas entre variedades do portugu?s (do Brasil e da ?frica), conjectura-se que essa troca morfol?gica tenha a ver com influ?ncias de algumas l?nguas africanas que mantiveram contato com o portugu?s no per?odo da coloniza??o/explora??o desses lugares. Al?m disso, por notar que o uso do ni ? realizado por falantes da zona rural e da urbana, h? a hip?tese de que, possivelmente, exista um continuum que explique a sua difus?o no portugu?s brasileiro. Dessa forma, a partir da metodologia quantitativa de inspira??o laboviana, analisam-se falas do portugu?s rural, popular e culto de Feira de Santana a fim de avaliar a hip?tese da exist?ncia de um continuum rural-urbano, levando em considera??o o emprego desse tra?o morfol?gico. Os resultados das rodadas apontam que o portugu?s rural e culto favorecem o uso do ni com os pesos relativos de .65 e .52, respectivamente. O peso relativo de .33 do fator portugu?s popular, por sua vez, indica que essa variedade n?o favorece aplica??o dessa variante. O fato de haver valores t?o discrepantes entre elas ? explicado a partir das caracter?sticas hist?rico-sociais de cada comunidade lingu?stica. Todavia o que chama mais aten??o nesta pesquisa ? que os resultados da an?lise das vari?veis lingu?sticas corroboram a ideia de haver uma rela??o entre o portugu?s do Brasil e algumas l?nguas africanas no que diz respeito ao uso do ni.