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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Main Author: Ana Maria Stahl Zilles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística 2007-10-01
Series:Fórum Linguístico
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/7726
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