O sistema de classificação nominal Akwe-Xerente (Jê): âmbitos de análise
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2010-05-31
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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The need to describe and document the languages threatened with extinction has been gaining
importance in the last decades, given the growing risks of cultural loss and the knowledge
accumulated by indigenous people. The purpose of continuity of each one of these languages
is ensured by actions based on the results of studies which focus on the description of the
sociolinguistic problem, as well as on the description and analysis of the linguistic aspects
which characterize the language of a determined linguistic family, since the death of a
language means, among many other things, an undetermined loss of the science of
Linguistics and, above all, the disrespect for the rights of these people to preserve their
immaterial richness. The present research has as objective to answer some questions regarding
the use of classifiers, terms of classes and names in classifying function as components of the
classifying system of the language Akwe-Xerente (Jê), spoken by the indigenous people of
the same name. The Akwe-Xerente add up to about 3,100 people and inhabit indigenous
lands in the region of Tocantinia, in the Tocantins State. The description of the system of the
Xerente classification is based on theoretical functional references for the recognition and
differentiation of some nominal radicals which may occur in the function of classifying or
organizing the classes which show common characteristics amongst the designated items such
as form, size, aspect, consistence and function. This research is structured in the following
way: In Chapter 1 are presented some proposals of elaboration of typology of sociolinguistics,
to outline the contact situation in which the Xerente language is found nowadays; the chapter
also gives a description of the methodology used to collect, select, and the process of
systematization of the data. These procedures are constituted of a sequence of steps based on
the methods of research for the Linguistic of field of synchronic base. In Chapter 2 an
exposition is made of the theoretical views used in the description and analysis of the aspect
of the nominal classifying system of the language. Chapter 3 shows the morphological
criteria used in the definition and delimitation of the concepts of the words in the Xerente
language, of the name, the compound name (compound word), and some characteristics of the
name referring to the possibility of marking the possession/possessor in a certain group of
Xerente names. In Chapter 4, the focus is in the description of aspects of nominal classifying
in relation to the nominal stems which act as terms of classes and names in classifying
function. This research is part of the LIBA Project Brazilian Indigenous Threatened
Languages: Documentation (description and analysis and sociolinguistic typology) and means
for offering subsidies in the linguistic range for the education program, as well as contributing
in the scientific recognizance of related aspects to the classifying systems and linguistic
category.
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Linguística , Língua Akwe-Xerente , Sistema de classificação nominal , Classificadores , Termos de classe , Nomes de partes do corpo em função classificadora , Linguistics , Akwe-Xerente language , Nominal classifying system , Classifier , Terms of class , Human body names in classifying function , Sistema de classificação nominal Akwe-Xerente (Jê)
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SIQUEIRA, Kênia Mara de Freitas. The system of classification Akwe-Xerente:scope of analysis. 2010. 196 f. Tese (Doutorado em Linguistica, Letras e Artes) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2010.