Aspectos linguísticos do dialeto caipira encontrados em manuscritos de Piracicaba no século XX

Abstract

This article is part of  a master’s degree research in process that aims to study the formation and expansion of  the caipira dialect in the area of  Piracicaba. In the present study, some linguistic  aspects described  by Amaral (1920) as belonging to the  caipira dialect were selected for a subsequent comparison with some linguistic forms found in public documents of  Piracicaba in the century XIX and confirmed through historical grammars. This way, we attempt to demonstrate that many linguistic aspects today considered as being mistakes committed by people of  the rural area or with low education, were in other times linguistic forms used in official public documents and it was part of  the  norm standard of the time.