O uso de neologismos por empréstimos em Kaiwá: um estudo preliminar da versão do Novo Testamento Bíblico

Abstract

This dissertation reflects about the phenomenon of linguistic borrowing, through Kaiwá language, from the language contact perspective, both caused by the proximity, as the bilingualism situation poses that contact between the Indians and their environment in pursuit of communication and understanding of their differences. The research aims to identify and analyze the loans granted from the Portuguese to the Kaiwá language. Data were collected in Kaiwá`s New Testament of the Holy Bible version and ratified through interviews with bilingual informants living in Jaguapirú and Bororó villages, both of them Indian reserve in Dourados-MS. To reach that goal, we will use, as a theoretic referential, works related to word formation processes, especially neologisms by loan (phonological, syntactic and semantic), regarding the neologism formation processes, neologism in the concept of the word and some linguistic and semantics structure considerations, especially Alves (1994), Barbosa (1998), Basilio (1991), Biderman (1978), Câmara Júnior (1975), Carvalho (1989, 2009) and Ullmann (1964). From a total of 137 neologisms by loan analyzed, 88 were classified as “xenismos”, 29, as semantic loans, 12, syntactic – subdivided into 3 by flexion derivation, 1 prefixal derivation, 4 sufixal derivation, 1 by parasynthesis derivation, 2 by composition and 1 by conversion and 8 by loan phonological. Considering the results obtained from the data analysis, we can say that the semantic neologisms by loan sources are more productive comparing to the syntactic and phonological levels, although what prevails is the "xenismo" case, confirming the strong influence of contact with the Portuguese over the Kaiwá language.