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| Author(s): |
João Paulo Fernandes Bento
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2024-03-18 |
| Examining board members: |
Luciana Raccanello Storto;
Fernando Orphão de Carvalho;
Ana Vilacy Moreira Galucio;
Antônia Fernanda de Souza Nogueira
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| Advisor: | Luciana Raccanello Storto; Thomas Daniel Finbow |
| Abstract | |
The present project carries out a comparative study of the subordination functions through the reflexes of the morphemes *-ap and *-at in Proto-Tupi (RODRIGUES & CABRAL 2012) in the daughter languages of Proto-Tupi, such as infinitization, adverbialization, simple nominalizations and nominalized sentences, negation, among others. These proto-morphemes were initially described as circumstance nominalizer and agent nominalizer, respectively, by Rodrigues and Cabral (2012: 533), with nomenclature coming from the studies of Tupinambá de Rodrigues (1953: 143-145). However, this nomenclature does not account for the functions of its reflexes in the various occurrences of this morpheme both in the Tupi-Rondoniense languages (Bento 2021), mainly outside the Maweti-Guarani families. Moreover, the traditional nomenclature probably does not account for the reflex functions found in the Maweti-Guarani macro-branch. Many authors, such as Nogueira (2019), Vivanco (2018) and Rocha (2016) assumed very different functions of nominalization, such as infinitive, indicative, adverbial focus and negation, as reflex functions of these proto-morphemes. The study researches the morphosyntactic functioning of the reflexes of these two proto-morphemes for three identified functions, observing several theses, articles and grammars of several languages of the Tupi family, creating a mapping of the genetic relationships of these proto-morphemes within the languages, to observe the diachronic progression of these functions through time. To this end, we also covered generative and functionalist diachronic literature, in order to try to identify common morphosyntactic elements (HALE 2007, WALKDEN 2013, HALE & KISSOCK 2021) that enable a comparison and reconstruction of the functions of the analyzed morphemes. Thus, we were able to observe the details of the reconstruction of these two proto-morphemes in each of the different contexts in which it occurs, and which are not always considered in the comparisons carried out previously. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 21/12605-0 - Nominalizer morphemes *-ap and *-at in Proto-Tupi: a study of subordination by the reflexes in daughter languages |
| Grantee: | João Paulo Fernandes Bento da Silva |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |