As ideias gramaticais de João Ribeiro na Grammatica portugueza (3º anno)

Abstract

The nineteen century was a changing time in the linguistic studies. In Brazil, a wide number of Portuguese grammars were published with the intention of supplying the educational necessities of the public education. The Grammatica portugueza (3º anno) of João Ribeiro was one of these publications. Its writing is based on the Colégio Pedro II 1887 new program. It had many editions and among them the third one, object of this research. In order to construct this cultural product, the author leaned over the new scientific ideas of the end of nineteen century. Although he had not abandoned the previous grammar principals as we can see at the analysis on this study. Therefore the objective of this dissertation is verifying the linguistic ideas presented on the Grammatica portugueza (3º anno), since it was built by the appropriation of the linguistic ideas of that historic period. This investigation is supported by the line of research related to History and Description of the Portuguese Language of the program of post-graduation studies of Portuguese Language of Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and it is supported by the theoretical assumptions of History of linguistic ideas