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Estudo Fonológico E Morfossintático Da Língua NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES Yaqui Coordination new LINCOM Studies in CONSTANTINO MARTÍNEZ FABIÁN Vol. 56-60 Universidad de Sonora Native American Linguistics The explanation of coordinate structures is one of the greatest challenges for any theory of language. A prerequisite to any successful explanation is a careful and accurate description ESTUDO FONOLÓGICO E of coordinate structures in many different languages. This work provides such an account MORFOSSINTÁTICO DA LÍNGUA JURUNA for the Yaqui language, a member of the Uto- Aztecan family, spoken mainly in the north of CRISTINA MARTINS FARGETTI Mexico, and is the result of several years of Universidade Estadual Paulista, Araraquara investigation. It explores and describes the patterns of sentence coordination, verbal coordination, and nominal coordination. The Esta tese apresenta um estudo fonológico e morfossintático da língua juruna (família juruna, sentence coordination data raise fundamental tronco tupi), falada pelo povo juruna (aproximadamente 241 pessoas) que vive no Parque problems for theories which suggest that Indígena Xingu, Mato Grosso. No Capítulo I, um estudo fonológico, são apresentados os coordinators are heads of their own projection. fonemas segmentais da língua, com exemplificação de contrastes , distribuição The problem arises from the several positions that a coordinator can occupy in the coordinated complementar e variação “livre” ; também são apresentadas análise do acento via teoria structure. métrica (Hayes, 1995), análise da nasalidade, via geometria de traços. No Capítulo II, The author proposes that a viable explanation Classes de palavras, são apresentados os critérios para definir as classes de palavras da is to take the coordinating particles as having the língua, distinguindo-as em abertas ( nome, verbo, advérbio) e fechadas (posposição, function of licensing adjunction processes. In other words, to coordinate is to adjoin. The pronome, clítico e partícula). proposal is extended to verbal and nominal No Capítulo III, Subconstituintes da sentença, são apresentados os fenômenos coordination. The nominal coordinated structures relacionados aos subconstituintes da sentença : modificadores de nomes, ordem dentro do show number agreement conflicts with the verb SN, categorias de modo e aspecto , reduplicação (processos distintos de infixação e that again are theoretically challenging, and a solution is proposed within the framework of sufixação), causativos, reflexivo, recíproco e negação. No Capítulo IV, Tipos de Optimality Theory. sentenças, são apresentados os tipos de sentença na língua : Simples -declarativa, interrogativa e imperativa; e Complexas - coordenadas e subordinadas. No Capítulo V, ISBN 978 3 89586 913 6. LINCOM Studies in Conclusão, são apresentadas considerações sobre os resultados deste trabalho. Finalmente, Native American Linguistics 59. 288pp. USD no Apêndice são apresentados três textos em juruna, com as devidas glosas , com o objetivo 97.00 / EUR 66.00 / GBP 47.50. 2007. de proporcionar ao leitor a oportunidade de conhecer a língua em uso nas situações de diálogo, narração sobre uma festa e narração de mito. Também no Apêndice há um A Practical Grammar of vocabulário básico da língua, organizado com o mesmo objetivo de servir a uma the San Carlos Apache comparação posterior com outras línguas e um conjunto de fotos de membros da comunidade juruna. Language ISBN 978 3 89586 170 3. LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics 58. 321pp. USD 110.50 WILLEM J. DE REUSE (University of / EUR 75.20 / GBP 54.10. 2007. North Texas), with the assistance of PHILLIP GOODE English and English-Apache glossaries. Abordou-se, ainda, aspectos gerais da sintaxe. This grammar was written with the assistance Enfim, o estudo da língua matis é o resultado de San Carlos Apache is a variety of Western of Phillip Goode, a renowned native language uma pesquisa que objetiva descrevê-la em seus Apache, a Southern Athabascan (or Apachean) expert and teacher. Several other native language aspectos fonológicos, morfológicos e sintáticos. language spoken on and around the San Carlos consultants also provided input. O trabalho colabora para o melhor conhecimento Reservation in east central Arizona, USA. It dessa língua, tanto para a família Pano quanto might of interest to Karl May readers to know ISBN 3 89586 861 2. LINCOM Studies in para as pesquisas lingüísticas em línguas that the Apache words in Karl May’s Winnetou Native American Linguistics 51. 588pp. USD indígenas brasileiras. books were actually San Carlos Apache, even 126.10 / EUR 85.80 / GBP 61.70. 2006. ISBN 978 3 89586 340 0. LINCOM Studies in though Winnetou was supposed to have been a Mescalero Apache. Native American Linguistics 60. 307pp. USD Although there might be as many as 13,000 A língua do povo matis 105.80 / EUR 72.00 / GBP 51.80. 2008. speakers of Western Apache, very few children Uma visão gramatical are learning the language, and therefore its future is not assured. This pedagogical grammar covers A Grammar of River the major topics of San Carlos Apache ROGÉRIO VICENTE FERREIRA phonology, morphology, and syntax. It is Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Warihío designed for undergraduate university students Sul and high school language teachers with some ROLANDO FÉLIX ARMENDÁRIZ training in linguistics. It can also be used as a Esta tese tem por objetivo apresentar uma Universidad de Sonora teach yourself text. Since there is at this time no descrição morfossintática da língua matis (família reference grammar, it can also be profitably used lingüística Pano), falada por 262 pessoas que Warihío is a spoken Uto-Aztecan language with as a reference document by professional linguists. habitam no médio Ituí - noroeste amazônico. O two dialects. Upland Warihío is found in the The work contains an introduction on the goals trabalho é composto de doze capítulos. No mountains of Chihuahua. River Warihío is spoken and scope of the text, an introductory lesson on capítulo 1, trata da situação do povo matis e faz- along the Mayo River in Sonora, Mexico. the pronunciation and spelling of San Carlos se considerações sobre algumas diferenças entre Together with Yaqui, Mayo and the various Apache, followed by 20 graded lessons on as línguas Matis e Matsés - por muito tempo Tarahumara dialects, Warihío makes up the morphological and syntactic topics. Each of these classificadas como uma única língua. Nos Taracahitic sub-group of the Sonoran branch of lessons contains grammatical explanations, capítulos dois a doze, descrevem aspectos Uto-Aztecan. All field and supporting data here numerous example sentences, exercises for non- fonológicos e morfossintáticos da língua matis. come from the River dialect. native speakers, more advanced exercises for Por se tratar de uma língua que não apresenta This grammatical outline touches on all major native speakers, and dialogs with translations. qualquer descrição morfossintática prévia aspects of River Warihío, including a brief The appendices contain suggestions for realizada por outros pesquisadores, procurou-se description of its phonology, major and minor further reading, a detailed index of grammatical descrever sua morfologia de maneira mais word classes, simple sentence structure, Voice, terminology and topics, and an index to the verb abrangente possível, assim explicar, a função de and complex sentences structure. The description paradigms. The book ends with full Apache- cada morfema dentro de cada classe gramatical. and analysis of voice phenomena, including 120 ♦ LINCOM EUROPA• project line 18 • 2008 NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES passives, causatives, and applicatives, follows and Arizona. The analysis follows the lines Shibatani´s theoretical framework. Also included characteristic of recent works, since it The Relationship of is a brief section comparing some relevant aspects underscores the form-function iconicity principle, of Warihío grammar with Uto-Aztecan languages. and the syntax-semantic interface of the sentence. Wintuan to Plateau River Warihío exhibits some interesting The language presents interesting challenges. On Penutian features contrasting with the rest of the Uto- the one hand, Yaqui-specific relations between Aztecan family, including morpho-syntactic event integration and the complement-taking STEFAN LIEDTKE features theoretico-typological relevant. River predicates are compatible but not identical to Warihío’s flexible, pragmatically motivated cross-linguistic predictions based on iconicity. On This is the first attempt at a comprehensive constituent order plus it lack of coding properties the other hand, the traditional definition of comparison of Wintuan and Plateau Penutian, two for grammatical relations make this an unusual complementation based on morphosyntactic subgroups which are regarded as members of the language both within the Uto-Aztecan family as criteria does not cover all the strategies found, hypothetical Penutian language family. well as cross-linguistically. especially for those predicates showing The Winutan language group of Northern The author received his Bachelor and Master alternative encoding. This study is an important California includes as its most well-known degrees in Linguistics from the Universidad de contribution not only to our understanding of the representatives Wintu, Nomlaki (which are top of Sonora, México. His Master’s Thesis was on syntax of the Yaqui language and the theoretical the list of endangered languages) and Patwin Yaqui Grammatical Relations. He received a framework
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