Do presente para o passado: a variação lexical em Minas Gerais a partir de corpora geolinguísticos sobre brinquedos infantis

Abstract

This article is a study regarding the lexical variations in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and considers two synchronous delimitations, late 1970s and early 2010s. The aim is to discuss aspects of linguistic variation and change in real time and apparent time and the proposition of lexical areas in territory of Minas Gerais from the dialect divisions proposed by other scholars. To this end, two linguistic maps of the Draft of a Linguistic Atlas of Minas Gerais and data from the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil regarding variants of the concepts of bolinha de gude [mibs] and estilingue [slingshot] were selected. The data are analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively with graphics, tables, linguistic maps and interpretation of the results observed by correlating them to other studies. Among the findings, the importance of combining the real time study to the apparent time can be indicative of a possible language change for some items. On the other hand, the diatopic configuration does not confirm the dialect divisions established so far for Minas Gerais, at least as regards the lexicon.