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Corpus eletrônico de documentos históricos do sertão: as cartas de inábeis
Authors: Mariana Fagundes de Oliveira Lacerda; Zenaide de Oliveira Novais Carneiro; Huda da Silva Santiago
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The CE-DOHS project - Electronic Corpus of Historical Documents of the Sertão, which integrates
the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Digital Humanities (neiHD), of the State University of Feira de
Santana (UEFS), aims to carry out the digital edition of texts Of the DOHS - Sertão Historical Documents, of
the Vozes do Sertão project in Data: history, peoples and formation of Brazilian Portuguese, one of the projects
of the Núcleo de Estudos em Língua Portuguesa (NELP), UEFS, as well as its morphological and syntactic
annotation , Elaborating an annotated diachronic corpus that serves as an electronic resource for the linguistic
study of Brazilian Portuguese. Most DOHS documents, dated and localized - which are now also in digital
version in CE-DOHS - are handwritten letters from the 19th and 20th centuries (1084 letters, 422 senders),
edited mainly by Carneiro (2005), Who invested in the search and organization of documentary collections that
could contribute to the process of socio-historical reconstruction of Brazilian Portuguese, both popular and
cultured - especially Portuguese in the interior of Bahia. In addition to collections consisting of epistolary
documentation, there are also handwritten books, as well as printed texts and oral texts. The material available at the Bank serves, however, not only researchers interested in analyzes of linguistic aspects, but in aspects of
the diffusion of writing, reading, textual, historical, political, economic and social transmissions, among others.
In this work, the emphasis is on the Letts in Sisal collection, consisting of 91 letters of awkwardness, edited by Santiago (2012), available in the CE-DOHS, in the semidiplomatic and modernized versions; Are personal
letters, written throughout the 20th century, by 43 sertanejos from the semi-arid Bahia. This collection has a
special relevance for Historical Linguistics, since it is a representative sample of the writing by unskilled hands
- a term consecrated by the paleographic tradition -, considering the difficulty of finding texts that reflect
everyday writing, vernacular, products of individuals with low level of literacy.