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- Title
Orações relativas em Nheengatú ou Ingatú.
- Authors
Melgueiro, Edilson Martins; Câmara Cabral, Ana Suelly Arruda; Fileti Martins, Marci
- Abstract
The Nheengatú language, a modified version of the ancient Tupinambá spoken in the 17th century from the coast of the state of Maranhão to the lower Tocantins river, state of Pará, developed as a lingua franca, under the influence of Portuguese and speakers of different Indigenous languages that have adopted it, either as a first language or as an additional language. Among the various changes that occurred in the history of Tupinambá to the modern Nheengatú, the development of relative clauses under the influence of Portuguese, is of interest to typological and historical linguistic studies due to their innovative peculiarities, and especially because of the available reference to the structures of ancient Tupinambá, allowing the identification of the nature and directions of the changes that occurred. The present study addresses the relative clauses of the Nheengatú language in a descriptive and typological perspective, based on data collected in the city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, headquarters of the municipality of São Gabriel, Amazonas, together with two women of Baré origin, for which Nheengatú is the mother tongue and presents itself as a more conservative variety of the language. The description is guided by the typology of relative clauses proposed by Keenan and Comrie (1977, 1979), Keenan (1985), Givón (1990), and benefits from the contributions to typological studies on relative clauses by Lehmann (1986).
- Subjects
TOCANTINS (Brazil); MARANHAO (Brazil); AMAZONAS (Brazil); RELATIVE clauses; NATIVE language; LANGUAGE &; languages; SEVENTEENTH century; MODERN history; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; ANCIENT history
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica, 2019, Vol 11, Issue 2, p151
- ISSN
2176-834X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26512/rbla.v11i02.28115