Manuscritos mato-grossenses : da filologia à gramaticalização

Abstract

One purpose of philological study is the concern to keep alive the documentary written memory of a civilization. Moreover, studying the ancient texts, editing them and preparing them for professional linguistic analysis and related areas supports this goal. This paper aims to: (i) edit via facsimile and semidiplomatic editions of justlinear way, manuscripts belonging to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, copies of the letter genre produced mostly in the Captaincy of Mato Grosso; (ii) describe historical aspects from facts found in the documents, and (iii) describe and analyze in this corpus the use of the items ainda, assim and logo (still, so and soon) from the theoretical perspective of grammaticalization. The first part consists in the editions of texts, facsimile and semidiplomatic which are juxtaposed in this work. In addition to the theoretical and methodological framework of philological studies, we adopted also the textual criticism, according to Acioli (2003), Azevedo Filho (1987), Batiste (2005) and Spina (1977). The approach to grammaticalization (GR) is based on Neves (2011, 2006), Gonçalves et al., (2007), Braga (2001), Chiarelli (2010), Longhin-Thomazi (2011, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004a, 2004b) and Martelotta (2008), for the description and analysis of targeted items, among other authors that were needed to develop this research. The study aims to promote and encourage philological studies in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil and brings up syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects specific linguistic usages performed in this variety of Brazilian Portuguese in a diachronic perspective. This work is linked to the following Research Project: "Study of the Portuguese in Manuscripts Produced in Mato Grosso from the Eighteenth Century"—MeEL/IL/UFMT, and "For the History of the Brazilian- Portuguese -MT" - PHPB-MT.