Introdução ao vocabulário da língua Ofayé: uma amostra de substântivos

Abstract

This work consists of an introductory study of the lexicon of the language ofayé, the macro-Ge linguistic family, whose specific objective is to group nouns ofayé in order to work on vocabulary concepts, glossary and dictionary, semantic field, bilingual dictionary, neologism and onomatopoeia, and all these concepts are theoretical objects of applied work on data ofayé. We adopt the view that the lexicon is home to the collective representations of reality and notions of a people (Biderman, 2001) and this people is the active subject in the transformation process in the linguistic system, is the emergence of new lexical items, whether in transformation of others, promoting the enrichment of the lexicon. To meet the objectives proposed in the wake of studies and lexicographical and lexicological, used as a theoretical basis, Zgusta (1971), to treat the lexicon; Biderman (2001), to discuss and semantic neologism, Dapena (2002), to address the difference between semantics and lexicography, grammar and lexicography, Welker (2004), for his theory of bilingual dictionaries and the definition of lexicology and lexicography, and Ahmed (2007) to discuss neologism. The research of Oliver (2006) provided support to the considerations of morphological and syntactic ofayé as well as a list of words used to organize the vocabulary of nouns proposed here. It is organized into six chapters. At first, we consider the indigenous languages in general, focusing on the risk of extinction in many subject, including ofayé, and on the people and their culture. In the second, the concepts presented are basic vocabulary and language in the third, different concepts and principles relevant to the lexicographic work, namely: lexicology and semantics, lexicography, grammar, macrostructure and microstructure. Some aspects of phonological and morphological grammar ofayé are presented in the fourth chapter. Preceded by information about language as referring to semantic field, neologisms, and onomatopoeia and then ofayé-Portuguese vocabulary are the fifth and final chapter of this work.