Grammaticalization of a gente as a cluster of changes: evidence from apparent and real time studies
This is a study of the grammaticalization of a gente (‘the people’) in Brazilian Portuguese. This NP is replacing first person pronoun nós. The findings of both apparent and real time studies suggest that two parallel semantic changes are going on, the generic reference change being more advanced th...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística
2007-10-01
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| Series: | Fórum Linguístico |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/7726 |
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