EDUCATION AND CHANGE IN WRITING PRODUCTION: SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis on the role of education in the language variation process in Portuguese. After a brief literature review, we developed the analysis of the variation of the subject-verb agreement phenomenon in writings produced in a Brazilian school institution in order to verify the education factor weight in achieving subject-verb agreement in standard forms or popular/ stigmatized.

Keywords

• sociolinguística
• efeito-escola
• concordância verbal