A mudança da ordem do adjetivo em relação ao nome nos dados rurais de Luisburgo/MG

Abstract

This paper analyzes the order of adjectives in noun phrases in the speech of countryside residents from Luisburgo/MG in light of the Greenbergs Typology (1966) and his followers, which also took into account the semantics of the combination noun and adjective, as Cohen (1989), Nobre (1989) and Rezende (2008) for Portuguese and Totaro (1998), (2007) and Lima (2003) for other Romance Languages. The corpus of this study consists on 12 samples of the speech of countryside community members, who live in the córregos a local designation for family rural properties. The communities surveyed were: Córrego Boa Esperança, Córrego Gameleira, Córrego Pedra Dourada, Córrego Lage and Córrego Fortaleza. The data of this study are unique since these speakers were located on the farthest side of the urbanization continuum proposed by Bortoni-Ricardo (2004) and also belong to a tight social network, as discussed by L. Milroy (1987) and J. Milroy (1992). Results of the quantitative analysis of the data showed a clear predominance of the NA order. In addition, the AN order includes a small number of lexical items, mostly composed of crystallized structures. In the semantic analysis, it was considered the situational modification proposed by Waugh (1977) and the distribution of adjectives in semantic types from Dixon (2004).The results of the semantic analysis revealed that the postposition has a greater number of semantic classes, though the AN order has surprised with a significant presence of different semantic type.