Adjunto adnominal e predicativo: estudo das funções sintáticas do adjetivo em livros didáticos de língua portuguesa

Abstract

This research performed a descriptive work on the presentation of the adjective morphological class and its achievements as adnominal and subject/object predicative adjunct in textbooks. Moreover, it sought to point out the contributions of generative theory to a more reflective teaching of grammar in the school environment, taking into account the implicit knowledge that the student already has about their mother tongue before arriving at school. For that purpose, we used some studies made by Pilati (2017), Vicenti and Pilati (2012), Pires and Quarezemin (2016), as well as the official documents – Brazilian Common National Curricular Base (2017) and Brazilian National Curriculum Parameters (1997) and investigated this in two collections of Portuguese language school textbooks (final years). We focus on analyzing how the syntactic functions - of adjunct adnominal and predicative of subject/object - of the adjective, since we assume that these two syntactic functions of this word class are developed/taught in a fragmented way in this school cycle. From this problematic, we did a descriptive work of textbooks and intended to suggest other means for the Portuguese teacher to work the adjective and its syntactic functions in grammar classes at school.