Causativization in Asuriní do Xingu
This article aims to discuss causativization in the Asuriní of Xingu language, a Tupí-Guaraní language spoken by the Asuriní people who live in the municipality of Altamira in the Brazilian state of Pará. Based on theoretical assumptions from typological-functional linguistics, the article discusses...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL) |
| Repositorio: | Signum: Estudos da Linguagem |
| Idioma: | portugués inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/45900 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/45900 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Causativos Morfologia Sintaxe Linguística causatives morphology syntax Linguistics |
| Sumario: | This article aims to discuss causativization in the Asuriní of Xingu language, a Tupí-Guaraní language spoken by the Asuriní people who live in the municipality of Altamira in the Brazilian state of Pará. Based on theoretical assumptions from typological-functional linguistics, the article discusses the formation of causative predicates, the types of causativization found in the language, and the effects they cause in the sentence. Morphological causativization is the predominant type in this language, with the morphemes {mu-}, {eru-} and {-ukat} being responsible for it. The analysis shows that the morpheme {eru-} plays a causative role in this language, as it does in the related Kamayurá and Emerillon languages. At the same time, Asuriní of Xingu is distinguished from other languages of the Tupí-Guaraní family, such as Guajá and Tenetehára, where which this morpheme is described as an applicative. Research results show that the morphemes (mu-) and (eru-) are affixed to intransitive verb stems, while the morpheme (-ukat) is affixed to transitive stems. After affixing the causative morpheme to the verb, the sentence undergoes structural and functional changes. |
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