Verbal pluractionality in Karitiana (Arikém family, Tupi branch): a Distributed Morphology approach

• Grant number: 15/01164-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2015
• End date: April 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Luciana Raccanello Storto
• Grantee: Tarcisio Antonio Dias
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The main goal of this research is to provide a morphosyntactic approach to verbal pluractionality in Karitiana language (Arikém family, Tupi branch), following the theoretical framework known as Distributed Morphology. We intend to analyse the morphological processes of reduplication and suppletion, responsible for excluding the singular interpretation from the event denoted by the verbal root.