Atlas Morfossintático de parte da microrregião do Rio Negro-Solimões – AMPRINES

Abstract

The present study was carried out in the field of morphosyntax, developed from the criteria of Pluridimensional Dialectology with methodological support of Variationist Sociolinguistics. This research aimed to register the speaking manner of residents from four towns: Coari, Codajás, Manacapuru and Novo Airão, all within the microregion of Negro-Solimões river, in Amazonas state, Brazil. The instrument used for the data collection was the Morphosyntactic Questionnaire (QMS), containing 49 questions, extracted from the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil - ALiB. The informants’ speech was recorded with a RR – US310 digital voice recorder. The informants' profile was defined based on the criteria adopted by the Amazonas Language Atlas – ALAM (CRUZ, 2004), being three men and three women in each of the survey points, belonging to one of the three age groups: I (from 18 to 35 years old), II (from 36 to 55 years old) e III (from 56 and older). They were supposed to be illiterate or have only graduated from the elementary school, be born in the target towns of the survey, have not left their homelands for more than a third of their lives, and have spouses and parents also born in the investigation points. The morphosyntactic cards were elaborated with the use of a specific computer program for this purpose, called SGVCLin, authored by SEABRA, R. / ROMANO, V. / and OLIVERIA, N. Among the various results achieved, we verified the use of verbs in the imperfect preterite of the indicative in place of the future of the past tense, for instance, “Eu ajudava a casa do Senhor... e:: ... comprava uma casa pra minha filha...”, the answer from question 44 which asks the following question: “O que é que você / o (a) senhor (a) faria se ganhasse na loteria?”. This variation was recorded in the statements of almost all the informants in almost all the investigation points, the future of the past tense was registered only in the speech of an informant of the feminine gender, of the age group I, from Manacapuru town. We hope this study may contribute to enrich the knowledge about the Amazonian speakers, especially from the microregion researched.