Portvix: a sociolinguistics project--the speech of Vitoria on the setting/Projeto PortVix: a fala de Vitoria/es em cena

The main objectives of this paper are (1) to show the academic community the PortVix, a project which deals with the speech of the city of Vitoria, capital of Espirito Santo; (2) to summarize the works concluded and in development, based on data from this project, and (3) to speak about the alignment of Vitoria's speech with the national setting and about characteristics that individualize it. The Theory of Language Variation and Change guides the organization of the sample and, in general, the analysis of several variable phenomena, namely the variation between verb forms of conditional and of imperfect indicative; variable expression of the future tense; use of the gerund; variation of final adverbial clauses; alternation between the expressions nos/a gente (we); expression of anaphoric direct object; nominal agreement; verbal agreement; grammatical expression of imperative form; alternation of indicative/subjunctive form; variation of second pronouns, specially among voce/ce/oce; presence or absence of definitive article in front anthroponyms and possessive pronouns. Common sense observations and test results evidenced that there are aspects that align the speech of Vitoria-ES with the national setting, confirming the generality of some phenomena, but there are other characteristics that allow individualization of the capixaba speech (speech from the state of Espirito Santo) against the three states with which Espirito Santo establishes boundaries: Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and especially Minas Gerais. KEYWORDS: PortVix Project. Capixaba Speech (Speech from the state of Espirito Santo). Brazilian Portuguese. Linguistic Variation. Linguistic Change. Geographical variation. Os objetivos centrais do presente artigo sao (1) apresentar a comunidade cientifica o projeto PortVix, que trata da fala da cidade de Vitoria, capital do Espirito Santo; (2) sintetizar os trabalhos desenvolvidos e em desenvolvimento, com base nos dados deste projeto; e (3) tecer consideracoes sobre o alinhamento da fala de Vitoria ao cenario nacional e sobre tracos que a caracterizam. A Teoria da Variacao e de Mudanca Linguistica norteia a organizacao da amostra e, de forma geral, a analise de diversos fenomenos variaveis, a saber, alternancia entre futuro do preterito e preterito imperfeito; a expressao variavel do futuro do presente; usos do gerundio; variacao sintatica das oracoes adverbiais finais; alternancia nos/a gente; a expressao do objeto direto anaforico; concordancia nominal;