The first plural person in Santa Leopoldina/ES: correlation between variation and agreement
In the present study, based on the perspective of Sociolinguistics Variationist (Labov, 2008 [1972]), we analyze two phenomena related to the first person plural: the alternation of first person plural nós/a gente (we) and the agreement with nós (we). We focus on linguistic variables verb tense and...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2017 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repository: | letrônica |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/25067 |
| Online Access: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/letronica/article/view/25067 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Variation nós/a gente Verbal agreement Rural variety. Variação nós/ a gente Concordância verbal Variedade rural. Variedade rural |
| Summary: | In the present study, based on the perspective of Sociolinguistics Variationist (Labov, 2008 [1972]), we analyze two phenomena related to the first person plural: the alternation of first person plural nós/a gente (we) and the agreement with nós (we). We focus on linguistic variables verb tense and phonic salience, and also the age and a stylistic variable – interaction with the interviewer. The corpus used consists of 32 interviews (Labov, 2008), belonging to the Portuguese Sample Spoken in the Rural Area of Santa Leopoldina, Espírito Santo. For the quantification of data, we use the program GoldVarbX (Sankoff; Tagliamonte and Smith, 2005). We noted that the implementation of a gente (we) is favored by contexts that express “run away from agreement ausence”. We noted also that (1) nós is favored by present and past tense when there is ambiguity between the forms: if there is non-agreement, the morpheme -mos express past tense and the absence of the morpheme –mos express the present; (2) verbs that are less salient favor a gente or non-agreement; (3) men that have 26 to 49 years old favor a gente; (4) nós is most frequent when the interaction occurs with the interweer borned in the community. |
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