O conceito de “Língua Geral do Brasil” revisitado à luz da linguística de contato

• Main Authors: Márcia Santos Duarte de Oliveira, Maria de Lurdes Zanoli, Marcelo Módolo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Associação de Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola 2019-07-01
• Series: Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles
• Subjects: contact linguistics; brzilian língua geral tupinambá; pidgin-creole continuum
• Online Access: http://www.acblpe.com/revista/volume-9-2019/o-conceito-de-lingua-geral-do-brasil-revisitado

In this study, we aim to: (i) revisit the various 'concepts' of Brazilian Língua Geral (LG) from current studies relating with language contact; (ii) present new reflections on the sociohistorical conditions involving this type of language; (iii) to support, through a combination of hypotheses, that proposal that LG may constitute a "creole"-type language and that, contrary to what is suggested in some texts of the specialist literature, LG relates to a process of contact of "newly created languages", and not "language shift". We also propose that the LG creole language be integrated in a pidgin-creole continuum departing from the Tupinamba language. In this sense, once again, we distance ourselves from the literature in the are, as we see Tupinamba not as sister-language of LG belonging to the Tupi-Guarani family (in accordance with historical-comparative linguistics), but as a pidgin language.