As não respostas e as fronteiras dialetais brasileiras: possíveis caminhos

Abstract

This study presents a brief overview of the Brazilian dialectal areas, through the data Project Linguistic Atlas of Brazil - ALiB Project - for question 164 of the Semantic-Lexical Questionnaire - QSL - which seeks to identify the lexical forms for “a game in which children stay in a circle, while another one goes by with a pebble, a wand, a handkerchief that you drop behind one of them and this one takes the pebble, the wand, the handkerchief and goes running to reach the one you dropped” (ALiB PROJECT NATIONAL COMMITTEE, 2001, p. 34). The main objectives were to verify whether the documented forms reveal dialectal limits, in addition to showing the importance of the not given for sociodialetais research. The methodology used was: a) selection and reading of texts related to the theme; b) choice and formation of the corpus; c) analysis of the corpus, based on the comparison established among: Ribeiro (2012), Portilho (2013), Santos (2016), and Santos (2018); d) comparison among the variants found; e) analysis was undertaken on the corpus; and f) some considerations were made about the results found. It is worth noting that question 164 of the QSL is not productive, since the rate of non-response was high in all observed areas. Another notable aspect is the need for adequate treatment for the “not given”, in addition to computation, should be mapped in order to facilitate the reading of the language charts.