Um olhar para a variação morfológica na base de dados do projeto ALiB: investigando os campos semânticos “profissões e ocupações” e “convívio e comportamento social”.

Abstract

This quantitative-qualitative work aims to contribute to the morphological description of the Brazilian Portuguese, with a focus on collaborating with research in the field of linguistics. This process is established through the collection and analysis of data from oral interviews conducted by the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil Project. This sample includes 92 speakers from 22 locations in the state of Bahia, who were selected through parameters previously established by the Project. The focus of this research was the process of word formation, using as cutouts the names of agents of professional activities, which were among the answers given to six Lexical Semantic Questions of the Atlas. In the light of what Basilio (1987) informs, combinations are used in the formation of words, by means of rules, which are responsible for preserving the economy of the language, however, the reasons why we select one type of combination over another still holds some mysteries. In this investigation, we focus on the "mystery of combinations", so that we analyze the characteristics of the formative processes and the formation of agentive names carried out by the Bahian speakers in the interviews. According to the authors of reference in the work, the naming occurs mainly through derivation, which is listed as the most prototypical process to form agent names, but we also found that composition was widely used, a process that did not figure among the reference theorists as more productive for this purpose, but other modes of naming were recorded, such as the use of phrasings and simple forms. The attested data were analyzed in terms of two types of formation processes, which were verified as more productive in the corpus, derivation and composition. The analysis was constituted by means of the morphological characteristics of these names, correlating them with the reading denoted by the formations, and contrasting them with the age factor, in order to verify if this would be a factor that maintains some kind of correlation in the selection of the word formation process. The questions were synthesized in tables that organized and quantified the processes, generating at the end graphs that illustrated the behavior of the participants of the Atlas, showing that there are some suffixes that are more prototypical to form agents, such as -eiro and -dor, a type of compound also appears among the data as the most productive, the syntactic compound.