The present work, entitled Some peculiarities of the use of definite articles in proper nouns (anthroponyms and toponyms): a semantic approach in a comparative perspective between Mozambican Portuguese and European Portuguese, has as main objective to analyze the use of definite articles in proper nouns ( anthroponyms and toponyms) in Mozambican Portuguese. In this sense, we try to describe the different contexts in which the presence/absence of definite articles in proper names (anthroponyms and toponyms) occurs in European Portuguese (EP), we also try to compare the use of definite articles in proper names (anthroponyms and toponyms) in Mozambican Portuguese (PM) with European Portuguese (PE). The study is of a descriptive nature and to carry out the data analysis, a written corpus was built that resulted from the application of two linguistic tests, namely a provoked production test (filling in empty spaces in Portuguese sentences), composed of thirteen ( 13) sentences and a test of grammaticality and/or acceptability judgments, consisting of twenty-six (26) sentences. The inquiry was directed to eighty (80) students of the 10th Grade of the Secondary School of Tete. The analyzed data allowed us to verify that in the variety of Mozambican Portuguese, speakers constantly omit the definite articles in sentences with simple anthroponyms in different positions and contexts, thus creating a difference with European Portuguese; they omit definite articles in contexts where simple toponyms occur (referring to place names that designate landforms), in a predicative syntactic position of the subject; in short, the study allowed us to verify several differences in the two varieties of Portuguese, with regard to the use and/or omission of definite articles in different contexts.

The present work focuses on the use of verbs of movement (TO GO, TO COME and TO ARRIVE) in Portuguese. The main objective is to understand the subcategorization properties of verbs of motion performed in Mozambican Portuguese. This paper presents empirical data based on a corpus written and produced by university students in the initial courses at the Pedagogical University, Tete Delegation. The analyzed data show the following linguistic phenomena: (i) the subcategorization of verbs of movement (TO GO, TO COME and TO ARRIVE) obeys, on the one hand, patterns similar to EP; (ii) use of movement verbs (go, come and arrive) with a tendency to subcategorize the prepositional Sentences introduced by the proposition em; (iii) the preposition a seems to be less used in constructions that involve the movement verbs TO GO and TO ARRIVE in Portuguese; (iv) in the data related to the grammatical and/or acceptability judgments task, the accentuated acceptance of the preposition para is more evident in contexts in which movement verbs are involved, in particular the verb TO GO; (v) the absence or possible elimination of the definite article in some nouns, in contexts where the directional locative prepositions of EP (to/to and from) require a noun phrase complement. It is concluded, in the study, that these phenomena are due, on the one hand, to the fact that Mozambican Portuguese presents new subcategorization properties of these verbs by speakers. On the other hand, it is believed that there is a strong connection or even "a coexistence" between Portuguese and the Bantu languages and that, in a way, there seems to be some deviation from the EP rule.