Este trabalho apresenta uma investigação concernente às representações discentes quanto à importância da aprendizagem da teoria gramatical. A pesquisa em questão tem como objetivos não só investigar se os alunos consideram a aprendizagem da gramática importante e útil na futura vida profissional, mas também cotejar se existem diferenças significativas quanto às representações entre os alunos da rede pública e os da rede privada, relativas à utilidade da gramática, a fim de refletirmos se os professores de língua portuguesa, especificamente do Ensino Fundamental e do Ensino Médio, devem ou não privilegiar o ensino das regras da norma padrão. A pesquisa foi realizada com alunos do 3 Ano do Ensino Médio de uma escola particular e de uma escola da rede pública, ambas em Pindamonhangaba. O método utilizado foi o da pesquisa interpretativista e de diagnóstico, uma vez que buscamos confrontar as respostas dos alunos da rede pública com os da rede particular. Os resultados demonstraram que os alunos de ambas as instituições consideram útil a aprendizagem da teoria gramatical, pois acreditam que, mediante a aprendizagem da gramática, poderão conhecer e dominar a norma padrão, o que irá beneficiá-los em suas vidas profissionais. Tais resultados sinalizam a necessidade de tornar a teoria gramatical um conhecimento útil que corrobore não só o domínio da norma padrão, mas também a capacidade de adequar a linguagem de acordo com as exigências das diversas interações sociais. / This work shows an investigation concerning the student representations as to the importance of the grammatical theory learning. The present research aims not only investigating if the students consider the grammar learning important and useful in their professional future life but also check if there are significant differences as to the representations among public and private schools students, related to the grammar use, in order to ponder if the Portuguese language teachers, mainly from the first and second grades, should or should not privilege the standart norms. The research has been done with students from the third year of a private and a public elementary school, both in Pindamonhangaba. The method taken was the interpretative and diagnostic research once we try to confront the students answers from the public to the private ones. The results have shown that the students from both institutions consider the grammatical theory learning useful, because they believe that through the grammar learning they will be able to know and master the standard norm which will benefit them in their professional lives. Such results show the need of making the grammar theory a useful knowledge that strengths not only the standard norm mastering but also the capacity of fitting the language according to the demands of several social interactions.

Für das Deutsche wird gemeinhin eine strikte V2-Beschränkung angenommen, die für deklarative Hauptsätze besagt, dass sich vor dem finiten Verb genau eine Konstituente befinden muss. In der Literatur werden häufig Beispiele angeführt, in denen sich zwei Konstituenten vor dem finiten Verb befinden und die somit gegen die V2-Beschränkung verstoßen. Diese syntaktische Konfiguration, so das Argument, führt zu Ungrammatikalität: (1) *Gestern Johann hat getanzt. (Roberts & Roussou 2002:137) Die Bewertung in (1) fußt jedoch nicht auf empirischer Evidenz, sondern spiegelt ein introspektives Urteil der Autor*innen wider. Daten zum tatsächlichen Sprachgebrauch zeigen, dass Sätze wie in (2) im Deutschen durchaus verwendet werden: (2) Aber immer alle sagen das. [BSa-OB, #16] Die Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit dem Status dieser V3-Deklarativsätze im Deutschen. Der Status wird aus drei einander ergänzenden Perspektiven auf Sprache untersucht: Sprachverwendung, Akzeptabilität und Verarbeitung. Hierzu werden Daten, die in einer Korpus-, einer Akzeptabilitäts- und einer Lesezeitstudie erhoben wurden, ausgewertet. Basierend auf den empirischen Befunden diskutiere ich V3-Modellierungen aus generativer Sicht und entwickle einen Modellierungsvorschlag aus konstruktionsgrammatischer Sicht. Die Arbeit zeigt, dass die Einbeziehung von nicht-standardsprachlichen Mustern wichtige Einblicke in die sprachliche Architektur gibt. Insbesondere psycholinguistisch gewonnene Daten als empirische Basis sind essenziell, um mentale sprachliche Prozesse zu verstehen und abbilden zu können. Die Analyse von V3 zeigt, dass solche Ansätze möglich und nötig sind, um Grammatikmodelle zu prüfen und weiterzuentwickeln. Untersuchungen dieser Art stellen Grammatikmodelle in Frage, die oft einer standardsprachlichen Tradition heraus erwachsen sind und nur einen Ausschnitt der sprachlichen Realität erfassen. V3-Sätze entpuppen sich nach dieser Analyse als Strukturen, die fester Bestandteil der Grammatik sind. / German is usually considered to follow a strict V2-constraint. This means that exactly one constituent must precede the finite verb in declarative main clauses. There are many examples for sentences that exhibit two preverbal constituents in the literature, illustrating a violation of the V2-constraint. According to the literature, these configurations lead to ungrammatical structures. (1) *Gestern Johann hat getanzt. (Roberts & Roussou 2002:137) However, the evaluation in (1) is not based on empirical evidence but is introspective and thus might not reflect the linguistic reality. Empirical data from actual language use show that German speakers indeed use these kinds of sentences. (2) Aber immer alle sagen das. [BSa-OB, #16] The dissertation explores the status of these V3 declaratives in German, with ‘status’ comprising three complementary perspectives on language: language use, acceptability, and processing. To this end, I analyze data from three studies: a corpus study, an acceptability judgment study, and a reading time study. Based on the empirical evidence, I discuss existing analyses of V3 and V3-modeling from the generative perspective and develop an analysis taking a construction-based approach. The dissertation shows that including patterns from non-standard language allows for valuable insights into the architecture of language. In particular, psycholinguistic data as an empirical basis are essential to understand and model mental linguistic processes. The analyses presented in the dissertation show that it is possible to follow such an approach in the field of syntactic variation, and it is indeed necessary in order to challenge and further develop existing grammatical theories and our understanding of grammar. Most grammatical models strongly rely on standard language, which is why they only capture a snippet of the linguistic reality. Taking empirical evidence into account, however, V3 sentences turn out to form an integral part of the German grammar.