New Perspectives to the subject indetermination in Brazilian Portuguese: Overpassing the Limits of the Traditional Grammars
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2009v12n1p367Keywords:
‘They' Pronoun, Subject Indetermination, ‘The Traditional Grammar'.Abstract
The present study investigates one of the resources of the subject indetermination: the use of the third person, masculine plural, in its full and zero realizations. The main interest is to discuss why 'the traditional grammar' does not consider new forms of indetermination, like 'they' pronoun, as a resource of indetermination in Brazilian Portuguese.Downloads
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2009-07-15
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SOUZA, Elizete Maria de. New Perspectives to the subject indetermination in Brazilian Portuguese: Overpassing the Limits of the Traditional Grammars. Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, [S. l.], v. 12, n. 1, p. 367–383, 2009. DOI: 10.5433/2237-4876.2009v12n1p367. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/4199. Acesso em: 21 mar. 2026.
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