A lingua dos indios Yawanawa do Acre

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

This work presents a phonological and morphossyntatic description of the Yawanawá language, an indigenous language of Pano family. The Yawanawá people lives in the villages alongside the Gregório river, in the South region of the Gregório River Indigenous Territory, at the municipal district of Tarauacá, State of Acre, Brazil. The work consists of four chapters, a conclusion, the bibliography and three appendixes. The first chapter shows a general information about the people, including ethnography, history, physical setting and some aspects of the culture. This chapter also provides information about the methodology and the linguistic classification of the languages belonging to the Pano Family. The second chapter describes Yawanawá phonology, including an inventory of distinctive segments, syllable structure, stress and the main phonological processes detected in the language, especially the nasalization process. The third chapter deals with morphology and describes the criteria used to identify the lexical classes and the main morphological processes. Chapter four focuses on the case marking system. The author discusses the aspects related to the constituent order in the phrasal structure and the relation between these processes and the transitivity question. The appendix contains: 1) a basic vocabulary list; 2) narrative texts about the people?s origin and facts about the precontact period

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lingua pano lingua indigena linguistica

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