Day: August 26, 2024

Noms et verbes en wayãpi

AMERINDIA 44: 135-213, 2023 François COPINChercheur indépendant – France DOI : https://doi.org/10.56551/DTNY3741 Abstract: This paper aims to shed some light on the noun-verb distinction in Wayãpi, a Tupi-Guarani language spoken in Northern Brazil and French Guiana. It is often claimed

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Definitude e a genericidade em Rikbaktsa (Macro-Jê)

AMERINDIA 44: 109-133, 2023 Vitória Maria JASPER ERNUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina, BrasilBeatriz MARTINS RACHADELUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina, BrasilBianca MARIA DE SOUZAUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina, BrasilLéia DE JESUS SILVAUniversidade Federal de Goiás, Brasil – Universidade Federal de Santa

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Sujeito não-canônico em Mẽbêngôkre

AMERINDIA 44: 41-70, 2023 Edson DE FREITAS GOMESProfessor em Linguistica – Universidade Federal do Pará – Brésil DOI : https://doi.org/10.56551/RVIR2884 Abstract: Dative and locative postpositional phrases, when occurring with certain predicates in constructions that express mental or physical states, are

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Sybille de Pury-Toumi (1945-2022)

AMERINDIA 44, i-xv, 2023 Michel LAUNEYAncien Chercheur du CELIA (Centre d’Études des Langues Indigènes d’Amérique),CNRS – Villejuif – France Marc THOUVENOTAncien Chercheur du CELIA (Centre d’Études des Langues Indigènes d’Amérique),CNRS – Villejuif – France DOI : https://doi.org/10.56551/NAWQ5343

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The decline of Jê ergativity

Bernat BARDAGILGhent University DOI : https://doi.org/10.56551/YPFW3713 Abstract: In this paper I discuss the diachrony of case marking alignment in Jêlanguages (Brazil). Jê languages conform a medium-sized family with a rich pattern ofcase marking: an accusative-ergative alignment split, which is a

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