Navegando por Assunto "Indigenous languages"

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Diversidade linguistica no Pará: mundos de línguas indígenas e de língua portuguesa
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2014-01) FERREIRA, Marília de Nazaré de Oliveira; CASTILHO, Ana Carla Costa; CHAVES, Ana Claudia Assunção; FERREIRA, Sindy Rayane de Souza; PEREIRA, Camila Néo; MACIEL, Rafaela Viana; ALCANTARA, Milena das Mercês
The state of Pará, part of the Amazon Forest, is one of the Brazilian regions with representative concentration of indigenous languages, which integrates many diversities of Brazilian Portuguese and others foreign languages, besides LIBRAS (Brazilian Sign Language). This linguistic diversity is involved in various cultural and literary manifestation wich also reflet the social and regional diversity. Thus, the creation of a group called “PET/Conexões de saberes de Letras/ Língua Portuguesa (LP), at UFPA, focusing on Sociolinguistics education, aiming to expand the knowledge on this linguistic and literary diversity in Pará, and other related topics like bilingualism, multilingualism, the interlanguage and the linguistic prejudice.
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Estudo comparativo das posposições no Timbira
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2020-08-24) AYAN, Sheyla da Conceição; FERREIRA, Marília de Nazaré de Oliveira; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4291543797221091; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9995-1938
This work aims to compare similarities and differences in the occurrence of postpositions in the group of Timbira dialectal variants: Parkatêjê, Canela Apãniekrá, Canela-Krahô and Pykobjê, under a typological-functional view. The Timbira dialectal complex belongs to the Jê family and to the Macro-Jê stock. For Genetti (2014) postpositions are particles that occur with a noun phrase and indicate the grammatical, semantic, spatial, temporal or logical relationship of the noun phrase with the other element of the clause. The data used in this study come from descriptive works already carried out in these dialectal variants, namely: Ferreira (2003), Alves (2004), Popjes and Popjes (1986), Souza (1989), Miranda (2014), Amado (2004) and Silva (2011). Based on the comparison of data, a great similarity in the form of these elements was noted, as well as in the functions performed by such postpositions. On the other hand, there are also some very relevant differences between them, such as the postposition 'te', for example, which was analyzed sometimes as a marker of ergativity, sometimes as an oblique element, in addition to the genitive function. This research is based on the theoretical postulates of Genetti (2014), Dixon (2010), Hagège (2010), Blake (2004), Payne (1997), among others. The methodology used in this work consisted of bibliographical research in the specialized literature, comparison of data and analysis of typological-functional basis.
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Relação entre recursos naturais, identidades tradicionais e línguas na Amazônia brasileira
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2021-06) GOMES, Edson de Freitas
The aim of this article is to present and discuss some of the reasons that have caused the progressive loss of a significant portion of natural in Brazil, especially in the brazilian Amazon, and the consequences of this loss for the maintenance of the traditional people’s way of life in relation to their territories, their identities, and their languages, with emphasis on indigenous people who are one of the most responsible for nature conservation. The data comes from websites scientific articles and in the case of the linguistic data, from the author’s fieldwork. It was concluded that the progress promised with the exploitation of the natural resources of the Amazon, was not satisfactory for the great majority of the Brazilian population, especially the traditional populations.
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Tendência tipológicas de harmonia nasais e palatização em línguas indígenas brasileiras
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2020-07-31) BARAÚNA, Fabíola Azevedo; PICANÇO, Gessiane Lobato; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8504849027565119; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5699-1470
This is a study of the phonological assimilation of nasal harmony and palatalization in indigenous languages. According to Odden (2005), assimilation is the most common phonological process to occur in indigenous languages. Among these assimilatory processes, the nasal harmony and the palatalization are the most attested elements in languages worldwide (Kramer and Urek, 2016). Therefore, this research presents some tendencies identified in indigenous languages in what refers to the two aforementioned processes. This thesis aims to define the patterns and singularities in the processes of nasal and palatal assimilation in thirty one indigenous languages from Brazil. These languages belong to different linguistic groups emerging from two stocks (Tupi and Macro-Je), three major families (Aruak, Pano, and Karib); three medium families (Nadahup, Yanomami, and Nambikwara); and two minor families (Katukina and Chiquitano). This diversification allowed for the delimitation of linguistic patterns and singularities identified in each of the processes. Furthermore, it was possible to verify how similarities and differences are manifested in these languages in what regards the main parameters defining phonological processes: triggers, targets, directionality, and nature (phonetical, phonological and morphophonological). These processes are analysed from a linguistic typological perspective, having as analytical parameters the triggering segments, targets, results of the process, and directionality. The material considered for analysis is composed of PhD and MPhil thesis, and scientific papers published in the academic field. The data related with the languages were compiled and organised in a spreadsheet in order to log information such as: family, area in which the language is spoken, trigger info, targets, resulting segments and processes direction. Moreover, what is conducted is a phonetic and phonological exemplification of some words belonging to the analysed languages as a matter of confirming the assimilation parameters. The theoretical discussion about the process of nasal harmony is based on the work of Walker (1998). In regard to palatalization, this study is based on the literature of McCarthy and Smith (2003), and Bateman (2007). Throughout the thesis, it is initially discussed the linguistic typology, consequently leading to a more specific exploration of phonological linguistic discussions. Following, the families and stocks of the analysed languages are presented. Lastly, it is conducted an explanation of the assimilatory processes, description, and analysis of the languages. Although the explored parameters appear in accordance to the types and tendencies previously identified in the literature about these processes, the results of this thesis point out that other parameters diverge or are linked to one another (types of triggers x target groups; nature x directionality). In relation to nasal harmony, the nasal consonants tend to be the triggers of the process, whilst the vowels tend to be the targets. Referring to the palatalization, the trigger tends to be the high front vowel and the targets tend to be coronal consonants. In these processes, the nature and direction are related to one another. For this situation, if the nature is phonological, the spreading tends to be regressive; while if the nature is morphophonological or phonetical, the spreading tends to be progressive.