Dissertation
Instrumentos musicais nas línguas bantu e a herança no português do Brasil
On the 25th of September, Alzenir Mendes Martins de Menezes successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Alzenir on this achievement!
- Author
- Alzenir Mendes Martins de Menezes
- Date
- 25 September 2024
- Links
- Leiden University Repository
This study aims to reconstruct the lexicon in the field of musical instruments using the comparative method. Analysing the reflexes corresponding to existing themes in BLR3 (2002), new proposals for themes, comparing the data collected and consulting musicological literature, helps to trace the historical dimension to understand and reconstruct the cultural (musical) environment associated with the proto-Bantu era and its dimension. In this context, comparing the reconstructed and/or proposed etyma with the Bantu words found in Brazil reveals important aspects regarding their location and starting point.The results of the research highlight some of the lexical creation processes applied to musical instrument names: verbal derivation, ideophonic derivation, metonymic process, and metaphoric process.The linguistic distribution of the reflexes of themes corresponding to Brazilian Bantu words, in the Bantu domain, shows an expansive distribution covering Angola and the coastal regions of the two Congos; a narrower distribution, however, also covering Angola and the coastal regions of the two Congos; a distribution outside Angola and the coastal regions of the two Congos and a wide distribution.