Áreas lexicais brasileiras: um novo olhar sobre a proposta de Antenor Nascentes nos dados do Projeto Atlas Linguístico do Brasil

Abstract

The research presents an analysis of the lexical variation of the Brazilian Portuguese for the variants obtained by question 039 of the Lexical-Semantic Questionnaire of ALiB, covering the concept of tangerina. Data of the Linguistic Atlas Project of Brazil from 118 Brazilian municipalities are analyzed, summarizing the speech of 472 natural informants of nine federal states. The objective of this approach is to discuss the proposal of dialectal division of Antenor Nascentes (1953) with regard to the area of the sulista subspeech under the lexical perspective. Considering the variants diatopical behavior, the territory investigated can be divided into two areas, a northern and a southern, representing, respectively, two possible speech, the sulista and the paulista.