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 Vitória, capital of Espírito Santo; (2) to summarize the works concluded and in development, based on data from this project, and (3) to speak about the alignment of Vitória'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 nós/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 você/cê/ocê; 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 Vitória-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 Espírito Santo) against the three states with which Espírito Santo establishes boundaries: Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and especially Minas Gerais.
PortVix Project; Capixaba Speech (Speech from the state of Espírito Santo); Brazilian Portuguese; Linguistic Variation; Linguistic Change; Geographical variation
