ISBN : 9782296541856
BRAZILIAN CANDOMBLÉ: AWINDOW THROUGH WHICH TO PENETRATE BANTUISMS AND DOCUMENT AFRICAN TRADITIONAL CULTURES
0. Introduction: In a recent paper on the nature of data used in linguistics, Himmelmann proposes the necessity of viewing data collection as an autonomous field of linguistics separate from descriptive linguistics (Himmelmann 2007). This differentiation is pertinent if one considers that data collection is usually biased by the kind of treatment the researcher intends to do with it. If data collection is viewed as a separate field, one could expect that the collected data could then be interpreted using any linguistics framework of one's preference. When one looks at the different papers written on “Bantuisms” in Portuguese and Spanish spoken in Latin America, (e.g., Mendoça 1933, Castro 2001, Connell 2004, Angenot and Beltran 1976, Angenot et al. 1974, Angenot & Angenot 2007a, b), that...