Black vultures, opossums and mosquitoes in Maranhão according to data from ALiMA

• Autor(a) principal: Castro, Gabriel Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Ramos, Conceição de Maria de Araujo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Moara (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufpa.br/index.php/moara/article/view/9064

The present work focuses on the denominative variation concerning the fauna lexicon in Maranhão, more particularly the variations referring to the black vulture, opossum and mosquito forms, based on the corpus constituted for the elaboration of the Maranhão Linguistic Atlas (ALiMA). This study aims to examine the diatopic distribution of variants for these forms, in the state, and to investigate which extralinguistic factors condition this variation. The theoretical-methodological assumptions of Geolinguistics/Dialetology (FERREIRA; CARDOSO (1994) and CARDOSO (2010)), Sociolinguistics (CALLOU (2010)) and Lexicology (BIDERMAN (2001) and KRIEGER (2006 e 2014)) support the study. The analysis of the data showed, on the one hand, that diatopia is largely responsible for the diversity of forms, and, on the other hand, that there is a significant presence of variants, at least four, for the fauna elements targeted by the study. Among the documented variants, praga stands out, as a particular form of the Maranhão's North and West Mesoregions.