Allomorphy of personal prefixes of nominal possession of the mundurukú language (Tupian)

• Autor(a) principal: Nóbrega de Abreu, Natali
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Lobato Picanço, Gessiane
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/ling/article/view/43269
• topic: Mundurukú; Alomorfia; Prefixos; Nomes; Condicionamento; Mundurukú; Alomorphy; Prefixes; Names; Conditioning

This paper offers an analysis of morphophonological aspects involving person markers in possessive constructions in Mundurukú. Mundurukú is a Tupian language spoken in Brazil. Previous works, such as Crofts (1984/2004), Gomes (2006) and Picanço (2005), report the existence of person markers, which alternate depending on the class of names (alienable or inalienable) and the noun’s initial segment. However, this work shows the occurrence of more allomorphs than what has been previously reported for the language. We found that in the Mundurukú there are automatic alternations, that is, alternations motivated by purely phonological conditions, in addition to morphonological alternations, that is, those motivated by the morphological or lexical component. We found that the 3rd sg/pl has the highest number of allomorphs and it is mostly governed by morphonological criteria. The other person markers, on the other hand, are automatic alternations, motivated by the name’s initial segment as well as the syllabic patterns.