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| Author(s): |
Kathlin Carla de Morais
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2018-06-20 |
| Examining board members: |
Verena Kewitz;
Sanderléia Roberta Longhin;
Vanessa Martins do Monte;
Jose da Silva Simões
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| Advisor: | Verena Kewitz |
| Abstract | |
New trends on Historical Linguistics have shown that dealing with old texts provide a good basis for language change if we take into account that some texts provide the emergence of specific structures, words and expressions, while others do not. Based on this assumption, this dissertation aims at presenting the facsimile and semidiplomatic edition of a colonial manuscript produced in Jundiaí (São Paulo State) in 1657, named Cartas de Datas, which is a kind of land patent. The manuscript consists of a collection of sixty-one land patents written by the village officials in order to grant a tract of land to local people requesting it. The discourse tradition of issuing such document represented a formal and legal land contract. The analysis is divided into two parts. Firstly, I compare the macrostructures of each land patent in order to identify similarities and differences among them. The second part is dedicated to the classification and description of sentences as to nominal and verbal agreement based on Castilho et al. (2018). The results reveal that such elaborate text also gives rise to lack of agreement cases, besides agreement according to standard Portuguese. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/26486-2 - Semi-diplomatic edition and study of the 17th century manuscript: a contribution to the Paulista Portuguese corpus |
| Grantee: | Kathlin Carla de Morais |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |