Do nosso cotidiano ou do cotidiano da gente? Um estudo da alternância nós/a gente no português do Maranhão

Conceição de Maria de Araujo Ramos; José de Ribamar Mendes Bezerra; Maria de Fátima Sopas Rocha

doi:10.5433/2237-4876.2009v12n1p279

Of our daily life or of people’s daily life? A study of the alternation “nós/ a gente” in Português of Maranhão

Authors

Conceição de Maria de Araujo Ramos Universidade Federal do Maranhão
José de Ribamar Mendes Bezerra Universidade Federal do Maranhão
Maria de Fátima Sopas Rocha Universidade Federal do Maranhão

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2009v12n1p279

Keywords:

Linguistic variations, Portuguese spoken in Maranhão, Pronominal system.

Abstract

This work deals with issues concerning linguistic variations, aiming at examining the alternation of the form of the personal pronoun of the first person plural – nós (we) – and the form of the collective noun – a gente (people) – based on data from the Portuguese Language spoken in Maranhão. It investigates the form a gente in the subsystem of personal pronouns – either in terms of subject, or in the role of complement or adjunct, pressing the forms nós (we) nos (us) and conosco (with us) – as in the subsystem of the possessives in competition with nosso/nossa (our).

Author Biographies

Conceição de Maria de Araujo Ramos, Universidade Federal do Maranhão

Doutorado em Lingüística pela Universidade Federal de Alagoas (1999). Docente da Universidade Federal do Maranhão. Membro do Projeto ALiMA.

José de Ribamar Mendes Bezerra, Universidade Federal do Maranhão

Doutorado em Letras e Lingüística pela Universidade Federal de Alagoas (2001). Docente da Universidade Federal do Maranhão. Membro do Projeto ALiMA.

Maria de Fátima Sopas Rocha, Universidade Federal do Maranhão

Doutoranda em Linguística na Universidade Federal do Ceará. Docente da Universidade Federal do Maranhão. Membro do Projeto ALiMA.

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Published

2009-07-15

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RAMOS, Conceição de Maria de Araujo; BEZERRA, José de Ribamar Mendes; ROCHA, Maria de Fátima Sopas. Of our daily life or of people’s daily life? A study of the alternation “nós/ a gente” in Português of Maranhão. Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, [S. l.], v. 12, n. 1, p. 279–292, 2009. DOI: 10.5433/2237-4876.2009v12n1p279. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/4245. Acesso em: 3 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2009): Sociolinguística, Dialetologia e Geolinguística Pluridimensional

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