O emprego da preposição “de” do português na interlíngua dos surdos

Abstract

The generative studies have been working as technical support for the most diverse investigative researches about the process of acquisition of Portuguese by deaf. By the bilingual optic, the Brazilian Signal Language (Libras) constitutes the first language (L1) of the deaf and Portuguese his second language (L2). From these references, this work has as objective to verify the use of the preposition "de" of the Portuguese in the deaf people's inter-language. It was observed that, in Portuguese, the "de" preposition is used in many syntactic and semantic contexts. And that in Libras the prepositions are not existent, but they appear through specific, classifiers signals and directional movements. As analyses methodology, questioners and the written production of five deaf students of the second year of High School of a public school in Distrito Federal were used. Given the differences between the two languages, Portuguese and Libras, the collected results show a possible partial access to the Universal Grammar during the acquisition of L2 and a visible tendency to fossilization. And that deaf learners of L2 use the preposition "de" in their inter-language. This way, the analyses not a new pedagogic methodology, but to recognize that there is yet much to improve in the teaching of Portuguese as L2 to the deaf community.