The rise of number agreement in Nheengatu
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2015-08
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Number agreement systems often present traces of older elements common to different languages of the same
family; thus, their emergence is difficult to reconstruct. One possible origin of such systems is the grammaticalization
of plural words into bound morphemes, which, as a result of a long process, develop into agreement markers and
may become obligatory. Various investigations have provided evidence for this hypothesis. However, the complete
process of change from a system with no number as grammatical category into a number agreement system in a single
language has not been documented. This paper analyses documents covering different stages of the development
of the Nheengatu language from Tupinambá in order to observe how the number agreement system emerged in
modern Nheengatu. By doing so, this paper supports the idea that grammaticalization may have occurred rapidly
in intense contact situations.
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Number agreement, Grammaticalization, Língua geral (Nheengatu), Tupi-guarani, Concordância de número, Gramaticalização, Língua geral (Nheengatu), Tupi-guarani
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CRUZ, Aline da. The rise of number agreement in Nheengatu. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, Belém, v. 10, n. 2, p. 419-439, May/Aug. 2015.