Afro-Brazilian Cupópia
Lexical and morphosyntactic features of a lexically driven in-group code
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14860593 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Álvarez López (0000-0002-4223-6084, Stockholm University, corresponding author), Anna Jon-And (0000-0001-8840-076X, Dalarna University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 75-103 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0920-9034 • E-ISSN: 1569-9870 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jpcl.32.1.03alv |
| OpenAlex | W1778006215 |
| Language | IT |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
The present paper focuses on the speech of a rural Afro-Brazilian community called Cafundó , situated 150 km from São Paulo. In 1978, when linguistic data were collected, the community constituted approximately eighty individuals, descendants of two slave women who inherited their owners’ proprieties. According to earlier studies, when the inhabitants of Cafundó spoke in their supposed ‘African language’, Cupópia , they used structures borrowed from Portuguese and a vocabulary of possible African origin. A lexical analysis shows that the etymologies match historical and demographical data, indicating that speakers of varieties of Kimbundu, Kikongo, and Umbundu dominated in the community. Through a morphosyntactic analysis, specific features were found in the data, such as copula absence and variable agreement patterns. By showing that some of Cupópia’s specific grammatical features are not derived from the Portuguese spoken by the same speakers but are instead shared with more restructured varieties, this paper defends the hypothesis that this lexically driven in-group code is not simply a regional variety of Portuguese with a number of African-derived words
Brazilian Portuguese · Copula (linguistics · Geography · Linguistics · Portuguese · Situated · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Speech community · Variety (cybernetics · Vocabulary · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |