Língua wauja (arawak): uma descrição fonológica e morfossintática

• Autor(a) principal: Postigo, Adriana Viana [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/121830
• topic: Linguística; Indios; Indios - Linguas; Gramática comparada e geral - Fonologia; Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology

The aim of this thesis is to analyse the phonological and morphosyntathic aspects of Wauja language. Wauja is part of the Arawak linguistic family and is spoken by approximately 410 people living in Piyulaga village, located in the Xingu Indigenous Park, state of Mato Grosso. This work presents information about Wauja people, their linguistic situation, some considerations on the school of the village, and a presentation of the theoreticalmethodological framework applied to the collecting of field data. The bibliographical review contains the first notes published about Wauja, word lists, early studies of the language, and the genetic affiliation of the Arawak family. In the phonological analysis it is described consonantal, vocalic and approximant segments, syllabic patterns, stress, nasality, morphophonological processes, and some considerations on the orthographical conventions used in the school of the village. Concerning the morphology, this thesis describes the following grammatical categories: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, interrogative forms and quantifiers. In the syntactical analysis, this dissertation presents the kinds of predicates, declarative, interrogative, and imperative sentences. It also presents complex sentences, which can be coordinate (conjunctive, adversative and disjunctive) and subordinated (complement, relative, adverbial, temporal and causal). This thesis therefore aims to contribute to the documentation, description and analysis of Brazilian indigenous languages, specially the languages of Arawak family