A relevância de aspectos formais e funcionais em fenômenos variáveis relacionados à primeira pessoa do plural no português do Brasil e de Portugal

Abstract

This work aims to present an analysis of the phenomena of pronominal alternation between nós and a gente e and of first person plural verbal agreement in Brazil and Portugal Portuguese varieties, establishing a comparative framework between linguistic factors of formal nature and nature functional. The theoretical basis of the research is based primarily on the assumptions of Labovian Sociolinguistics (LABOV, 2006) and Sociofunctionalism (CEZARIO, MARQUES AND ABRAÇADO, 2016, among others). The corpus employed is composed of 152 sociolinguistic interviews from the Portuguese Contemporary Reference Corpus (BACELAR DO NASCIMENTO, 2000), the Linguistics Center of the University of Lisbon, and the Iboruna Database (GONÇALVES, 2007), the Biosciences, Literature and Exact Sciences Institute of São José do Rio Preto, State University of São Paulo. The results show that, in the investigated phenomena, there are different internal motivations for linguistic variation, with the performance of factors of a formal nature, such as discursive parallelism and phonemic salience, and of a functional nature, such as the determination of the subject. The greater or lesser relevance of the groups of factors of different natures will depend on the linguistic variety and also on the phenomenon investigated.