THE VERBAL AGREEMENT WITH THE PRONOUN NÓS (‘WE’) IN THE QUILOMBOLA COMMUNITY SERRA DAS VIÚVAS/ÁGUA BRANCA – AL
Abstract
This research studies the verbal agreement with the pronoun nós (‘we’) in the speech of quilombolas without schooling in the Serra das Viúvas community, in Água Branca – AL. It aims to describe and analyze their linguistic behavior, based on the assumptions of Variationist Sociolinguistics (LABOV 2008 [1972 ]). To treat the data we use the computer program GoldVarb X (SANKOFF; TAGLIAMONTE; SMITH, 2005). Through this study, we found that there is variation in verbal agreement with the pronoun nós (‘we’) in the studied community, and that the preferred variant by speakers is nós (‘we’) conjugated in the third person singular. The results also show that this variation is conditioned by the discursive parallelism and sex/gender variables.
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