Bird-fauna in Juruna language: a lexicological study and lexicographic application

• Grant number: 10/13623-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2011
• End date: February 28, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Indigenous Languages
• Principal Investigator: Cristina Martins Fargetti
• Grantee: Flávia de Freitas Berto
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project intends to conclude a lexicological analysis of birds names in juruna language, for future application in an existing lexicographic study, which looks for the elaboration of juruna-portuguese dictionary. The results comes from a field work data collection, in participative research, of ethnographic shape. The project intends do contribute to a Brazilian indigenous language knowledge and documentation, proceeded from juruna family, tupi stock, showing relevance to historical-comparative and lexicographic studies, and to General Linguistics. Above of it, the research has great importance to juruna community, for proposing a material which could be utilized, among others, by bilingual teaching.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BERTO, Flávia de Freitas. Kania Ipewapewa: estudo do léxico juruna sobre a avifauna. 2013. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Araraquara Araraquara.