Sobre a morfologia e a sintaxe da língua Guajá
AUTOR(ES)
Marina Maria Silva Magalhaes
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2007
RESUMO
This dissertation presents an analysis of morphological and syntactic aspects of the Guajá language (Tupí-Guaraní family), focusing on word classes, their inflectional and derivational morphology, as well as on the structure of independent and dependent clauses. Chapter 1 deals with lexical word classes nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and numerals and discusses lexical classification in categories, proposing a class of adjectives semantically, morphologically and syntactically different from the classes of nouns and verbs. Chapter 2 deals with minor classes of non-lexical words: pronouns, postpositions, particles and interjections. Chapter 3 focuses on the description of relational inflection for this is an essential morphosyntactic phenomenon to understand the following chapters. Chapter 4 presents morphological and syntactic phenomena related to the class of nouns, focusing on its inflectional morphology, its three subclasses and their morphosyntactic characteristics, as well as nominal derivational processes and composition. This chapter also deals with the inflectional morphology of adjectives, emphasizing the morphosyntactic differences between this class and that of nouns in spite of their apparent morphological resemblance, and describes the inflection with translative suffix, common to both word classes. Chapter 5 deals with morphological and syntactic phenomena related to verbs, presenting the inflectional morphology of this class, its subclasses, and the syntactic-semantic referential hierarchy which determines the person-marking prefix of transitive verbs, as well as the nominal incorporation process. Chapter 6 deals with morphological and syntactic phenomena common to the various word classes, such as derivational processes with intensity and attenuation suffixes, verb formation by means of causativization, noun formation by means of nominalization, reduplication and a lexical process considered here as a special kind of incorporation of stems of several classes. Chapter 7 presents the different types of predicates of the Guajá language: eventive, stative, existential and equative, each of which with their own morphological and syntactic characteristics. Chapter 8 describes the structure of independent clauses, focusing on mood (indicative I, indicative II, imperative and exortative) and the various affixes and clitic particles that characterize each of them. Chapter 9 deals with coordination and describes the diverse types of subordination between clauses, presenting both syntactic and semantic subordination, which is characterized by the absence of a subordinating morpheme. Finally, the last chapter focuses on negation in Guajá, describing the four negative morphemes and their occurrence, as well as the independent word meaning no.
ASSUNTO(S)
descrição lingüística indigenous language guajá guajá tupí-guaraní family línguas indígenas linguistica descriptive linguistics família tupí-guaraní
