O sujeito indeterminado em sentenças finitas do português brasileiro

This paper aims to analyse the representation of the indeterminate subject in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) finite sentences in samples of standardised writing (based on the statutes of the 18th century Brazilian literary academies), journalistic writing and specialised speech, focusing on the transition from the 19th to the 20th century, when, according to Tarallo (1993) and Pagotto (1998), among others, we saw the emergence of a Brazilian grammar. The aim is to show that, with regard to the representation of the indeterminate subject, the phenomenon can be considered a reflection of the parametric change with regard to the Pro-Drop parameter (BP as a partial Pro-Drop language), the consequence of which is a change in the representation of pronominal subjects with definite ref-erence. Throughout the 20th century, the representation of the indeterminate subject (generic and arbitrary) in BP was implemented using express nominative pronominal forms (Você and a gente) to the detriment of the use of standardised forms for indeterminate subjects: SE (3PS), 3PP∅ and 1PPmos. However, despite this implementation, in oral and written textual genres [+monitored], it still oscillates between a more innovative grammar and a more conservative grammar, still presenting forms that are in disuse or little used in speech.