Xokleng grammar elements in the origin myth as registered by Wanda Hanke

• Grant number: 16/14631-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2016
• End date: September 30, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Wilmar da Rocha DAngelis
• Grantee: Beatriz Furlan Toledo
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The aim of this project is to identify and describe the syntactical elements of Xokleng, or in other words, to develop a first draft of a grammar based in/on text of Xokleng language. The chosen text is part of the study called "Apuntes sobre el idioma Caingangue de los Botocudos de Santa Catarina, Brasil" and it is a mythical narrative written in the Xokleng language registered by the Austrian researcher and indigenist Wanda Hanke. This study was published by the Museu Paranaense in 1947. The original narrative does not contain any gloss within, just a general translation and a short vocabulary, which is incomplete. Therefore, a significant part of this work is making the gloss for the text and translating each sentence of the original text (with support from other texts and vocabularies available in Xokleng). Henceforth the translation to Brazilian Portuguese of such text (originally written in Xokleng before the contact of other languages) will be available for the public in general.