Loss of Agreement in Caipira Portuguese

Você acha que eles não concordam? Sinais de variação produtiva na concordância verbal de Recife

“…Azevedo (1984), for example, has documented a very high tendency towards morphological simplification and agreement loss in the southwest of Brazil. His data was collected in the rural areas of São Paulo and Minas Gerais, the Caipira dialect, and show that speakers tend to eliminate redundant plural markers over 70% of the time.…”

“…Overall the literature points out a great variation in morphological expression of number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese (BP hereafter) depending on factors that are internal, as well as some that are external to the language (AZEVEDO, 1984;CORRÊA et al, 2005;CARVALHO, 2006;SCHERRE;NARO, 2006;CASTRO, 2007;among others).…”