Cartas para Exupério Pinheiro Canguçu (século XIX): edição semidiplomática e estudo descritivo-interpretativo da sintaxe das relativas

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze relative clauses through a descriptive-interpretative approach (Mattos e Silva, 1989), based on the semi-diplomatic edition of an unpublished corpus of 65 letters—produced by 51 scribes and 53 senders—alongside 20 manuscripts from a complementary corpus (Carneiro, 2005). This entire documentation, representative of the socially prestigious norms of Brazilian Portuguese, was addressed to Exupério Pinheiro Canguçu between 1846 and 1890. The collection is part of the archival set titled 'Brejo do Campo Seco: Livro do Gado, Livro de Razão e outros documentos,' belonging to the Electronic Corpus of Historical Documents of the Sertão (CE-DOHS/NELP/UEFS). Aligned with the philological, socio-historical, and grammatical change agendas of the PHPB, this investigation sought to contribute to the socio-historical linguistics of Brazil, with an emphasis on the 19thcentury Portuguese that circulated in the Alto Sertão of Bahia. To this end, a diachronic corpus of the cultivated variety was established, and a descriptive-interpretative study of relative clauses in the region was conducted. The new data obtained add to seminal research on the phenomenon, such as that of Tarallo (1983; 2018 [1993]). Finally, the results indicate a high degree of monitoring in the writing practices of these individuals, given the prevalence of the standard strategy in the analyzed corpus.