Morphosyntactical, lexical and phonetics aspects of the variant from Azores of Santa Catarina

Author(s)

Amabile Bianca Nogueira

• 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: 2007-03-27

Examining board members

Mario Eduardo Viaro; Maria Antonieta Amarante de Mendonça Cohen; Valéria Gil Condé

• Advisor: Mario Eduardo Viaro

Abstract

It is said that there is a great influence of Azores in the Santa Catarina coastline. Many works are carried out to study this subject, however, a few analysis this fact from the linguistics point of view mainly in their morphosyntactical and phonetics aspects. The few researches carried out are turned towards a lot of general characteristics of Santa Catarina speech or they centralize in Florianópolis region, present capital of the state. The lack of materials shows that not much is known about the related influence of Azores. The present work suggests investigating the speech of the three more ancient regions of Santa Catarina, whose colonization basis was from Azores: the ancient region of Itapocorói (that nowadays includes the cities areas of Penha, Piçarras and a small part of the south of Barra Velha) and the village of Nossa Senhora das Graças of Rio São Francisco (nowadays São Francisco do Sul). That is why, it was necessary to carry out two linguistics field searches, one in Itapocorói region and the other in São Franciso do Sul, with the purpose of describing the present local variant and the possible phonetics, lexical and morphosyntactical variants transformation in a group of sixty informers divided in three different age groups (thirty of each places researched). It was made use of data gathered work field through: a) spontaneous idiomatic expression; b) linguistic questionnaire application with 49 questions and c) valorables questionnaire with six questions. The characteristics showed will be the ones that, in general differ the local variant and the other variants of Portuguese from Brazil. We believe that, with this, it will be possible to know a bit more the variant from Azores of Santa Catarina and its story. (AU)