Abstract
ABSTRACT Based on theoretical and methodological assumptions of sociolinguistics, we analyse the variation between compound pluperfect and simple past as forms of coding the earlier past in four corpora of Ceará-Brazil: PORCUFORT, NORPOFOR, PROFALA and TORRES. For each corpus, the quantitative analysis is performed using the Goldvarb program, considering social and stylistic factors: formality level by type of text, education, rural-urban area, age group and profession. There are 334 data in the four corpora: 207 of pluperfect compound and 127 of simple past tense, which show conditioning of use of the compound pluperfect according to type of text. The social factors show numerical approximation between simple past and pluperfect, which proves that the simple past is a socially legitimate way to indicate earlier past in the spoken Portuguese in Ceará-Brazil.
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