Morphological Studies in Arawak Languages: A Typological Approach

• Grant number: 18/18072-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: January 01, 2019
• End date: March 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Indigenous Languages
• Principal Investigator: Angel Humberto Corbera Mori
• Grantee: Camille Cardoso Miranda
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to carry out a study of the morphological properties of Arawak languages. It is a comparative-typological study because it utilizes translinguistic methods to verify, among the languages analyzed, typological profiles that are general, that is, those that are present in all languages, or the most specific ones. The goals are: (1) to discuss nominal and verbal morphology; (2) to describe the different morphological processes that structure the formation of words: affixation, composition, derivation and lexical reduplication; (3) to verify the prefix and suffix which designates grammatical properties to establish generalizations and specifications; (4) to analyze and describing nominal classifiers, affixes that marks inalienable and alienable possession on the names, nominal incorporation and (5) to make the relation between the morphology and the syntax, examining mainly the open and closed classes and the orders of constituents of simple sentences. The research is based mainly on the theoretical assumptions of the linguistic typology of Greenberg (1963, 1974), Comrie (1989), Whaley (1997), T. Payne (1997), Croft (2002) Booj (2007) and Shibatani (2015). In relation to the typological studies of the Arawak languages, the works of Derbyshire & Pullum (1986) and Aikhenvald (1994, 1999, 2012) are essentials. Furthermore, others studies already done about these languages will be used. The purpose of this study is to offer subsidies for future descriptive, comparative and typological researchers of the languages that are part of the Arawak family and contribute with the typology studies in Brazilian indigenous languages.

Academic Publications

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

MIRANDA, Camille Cardoso. Morphological Studies in Arawak languages: a typological approach. 2023. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem Campinas, SP.