The Influence of the Philosophical Grammar on the Verb Concept of Brazilian Grammars

Abstract

Our aim in this paper is to analyze the influence of the philosophical grammar on verb concept present in grammars published in two different moments of the Brazilian gramaticography: the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century; the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. For this, we described the distinctive criteria of the verb concept in the philosophical grammars, as the one by Jerônimo Soares Barbosa, and later on we compared to the present concepts in the grammars we selected to our corpus. Such procedure led us to verify that the concepts of verb from the selected grammars have distinctive criteria similar to the ones from the philosophical grammar, fact that put into perspective the idea that this is a tradition totally overcome by the grammars published in the transition of the 19th to the 20th century, or an irrelevant grammatical tradition in the transition of the 20th century to the 21st. We accomplished this research based on the postulations of the History of the Linguistic Ideas (AUROUX 2009), in which the growth of knowledge is fundamental for its development in a long-term perspective.