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Morfossintaxe Da Língua Paresi-Haliti (Arawak) UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO Glauber Romling da Silva MORFOSSINTAXE DA LÍNGUA PARESI-HALITI (ARAWAK) Disponível para download em http://www.etnolinguistica.org/tese:silva-2013 Faculdade de Letras 2013 MORFOSSINTAXE DA LÍNGUA PARESI-HALITI (ARAWAK) Glauber Romling da Silva Tese de Doutorado apresentada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro como quesito para a obtenção do Título de Doutor em Linguística Orientadora: Profa. Doutora Bruna Franchetto Rio de Janeiro Fevereiro de 2013 Morfossintaxe da Língua Paresi-Haliti (Arawak) Glauber Romling da Silva Orientadora: Professora Doutora Bruna Franchetto Tese de Doutorado submetida ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, como parte dos requisitos necessários para a obtenção do título de Doutor em Linguística. Examinada por: _________________________________________________ Presidente, Professora Doutora Bruna Franchetto, PPGAS/MN/UFRJ _________________________________________________ Professora Doutora Marcia Maria Damaso Vieira – FL/UFRJ _________________________________________________ Professora Doutora Kristine Sue Stenzel – FL/UFRJ ____________________________________________________ Professor Doutor Andrés Pablo Salanova – University of Ottawa (uOttawa) _____________________________________________________ Professor Doutor Dennis Albert Moore – Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi - MCTI ________________________________________________________ Professor Doutor Marcus Antônio Rezende Maia – FL/UFRJ - Suplente _________________________________________________ Doutora Gélsama Mara Ferreira dos Santos - Suplente Em: 19 / 02 / 2013 Rio de Janeiro Fevereiro de 2013 SILVA, Glauber Romling da. Morfossintaxe da língua Paresi-Haliti (Arawak)/ Glauber Romling da Silva. - Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ/ FL, 2013. 28, 602 f.: il.; 31 cm. Orientadora: Bruna Franchetto Tese (doutorado) – UFRJ/ FL/ Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística, 2013. Referências Bibliográficas: f. 444-461 1. Línguas Indígenas Brasileiras. 2. Morfossintaxe. 3. Linguística – Tese. I. Morfossintaxe da Língua Paresi-Haliti (Arawak). II Tese (Doutorado – UFRJ/ FL, Departamento de Linguística). Dedico esta tese à nação paresi-haliti. 'Zumbi, bateu no tombo e correu no chão. De dentro pra fora, de fora pra dentro Onde o pensamento apareceu, Pela primeira vez no mesmo lugar.” Interlude (Chico Science & Nação Zumbi) AGRADECIMENTOS Agradeço imensamente a todas as comunidades da Terra Indígena do Formoso (Rio Formoso, Cachoeirinha, Jatobá, JM e Queimada) pela hospitalidade com que sempre me receberam, em especial: Jurandir Zezokiware, tradutor e professor da Escola Indígena do Formoso, Adriana Negarotê, sua esposa, Justino Zomoizokae, cacique do Formoso, Antonio Zonizarece (in memoriam), Alice Kezokero (in memoriam) e Dona Agostinha. Meus trabalhos de campo não teriam sido tão agradáveis sem a gentileza e serenidade de vocês. Agradeço também a outros membros que tornaram o trabalho possível e que foram igualmente receptivos: Nelsinho Zoizomae, Joscélio, Onezokaece, Fernando Moizokero, João Titi Akonozokae, Maria Mulata, Elizabeth Akezomaialo, Genivaldo Zezokaece e Geovani Kezokenaece. Agradeço a meus pais, Sonia Cristina Romling da Silva, Ronaldo Fernandes da Silva, e ao meu irmão Glauco Romling da Silva pelo carinho durante esses anos. Agradeço à Priscilla Alves de Moura, que está comigo desde antes de eu iniciar o mestrado, pela companhia e compreensão. Agradeço à minha orientadora Bruna Franchetto por ter me ensinado linguística e por ter dado todo o suporte sem o qual não seria possível este trabalho. Agradeço muito também a Mara Santos com quem aprendi muito do que sei desde os tempos de Iniciação Científica. Agradeço a meus grandes amigos do GELA (Grupo de Estudos de Linguística Avançada) Lívia Camargo, Thiago Coutinho-Silva, Juliana Terciotti e Marília Lott. Aprendi (e venho aprendendo) muito com o talento de vocês para a linguística e para a vida. Agradeço imensamente à Ana Paula Souza, que acolheu a mim à Pri em sua casa, quando fomos vítimas da alucinação imobiliária que tomou conta do Rio de Janeiro e torna cada vez mais impossível a vida sã nesta cidade (sobretudo para estudantes que vivem de bolsas de estudos) ao distorcer valores não apenas econômicos, mas também humanos. Esse ato garantiu que esse período de transição se desse na mais completa paz. Obrigado. Agradeço a Andrés Salanova e Clara Foz pelo agradável semestre que me proporcionaram quando estive na Universidade de Ottawa como pesquisador visitante em 2011. Agradeço aos professores Marc Brunelle e Erick Mathieu pelos comentários encorajadores sobre o meu trabalho. Aos amigos que fiz lá, Jean-Bruno Chartrand, Emelia Koberg e Nahed Mourad, agradeço por tornarem a distância de casa mais tranquila. Agradeço a Andrew Nevins e Cilene Rodrigues pela amizade e pelos preciosos comentários sobre tópicos de minha tese. Agradeço aos amigos da Parlerstrasse 47 por terem tornado a reta final deste doutorado muito feliz e tranquila no período em que estive em Schwäbisch-Gmünd para acompanhar Priscilla em seus estudos. Agradeço aos membros da banca por terem aceitado participar desta etapa e pelos comentários tecidos durante a defesa. Agradeço ao ELDP/SOAS e ao PRODOCLIN pelos projetos de documentação e ao CNPq pelo suporte financeiro. RESUMO Silva, Glauber Romling da. MORFOSSINTAXE DA LÍNGUA PARESI- HALITI (ARAWAK). Orientadora: Professora Doutora Bruna Franchetto. Rio de Janeiro, 2013. Tese (Doutorado em Linguística) – Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 2013. Esta tese tem como objetivo descrever os principais aspectos da gramática paresi- haliti, uma língua pouco documentada. Na Parte I Introdução, apresentamos no Capítulo 1 Língua, Povo e Documentação, os principais aspectos da língua, seus falantes e território e relatamos o processo de documentação. No Capítulo 2 Fonologia, apresentamos o sistema fonológico da língua à luz da teoria autossegmental da Geometria de Traços (Clements & Hume, 1995). No Capítulo 3 Unidades Morfossintáticas definimos as noções de palavra gramatical e fonológica. Na Parte II Categorias Lexicais Abertas, iniciamos com a descrição dos nomes no Capítulo 4. No Capítulo 5, descrevemos os verbos, em suas classes, morfologia de aspecto, processos de incorporação e de mudança de valência. A Parte III Categorias Lexicais Fechadas é dedicada aos principais aspectos das posposições (Capítulo 6), advérbios (Capítulo 7), adjetivos (Capítulo 8) e conjunções (Capítulo 9). Na Parte IV A Periferia Esquerda e Além, o Capítulo 10 busca explicar as principais características sintáticas da distribuição das categorias funcionais externas à concha lexical, que chamamos de NMA – FT (Negação, Modo, Aspecto – Foco, Tempo). Ao final dessa parte, apresentamos o que identificamos como interjeições e ideofones (Capítulo 11). Na Parte V Sintaxe encerramos a gramática descritiva com o Capítulo 12, que descreve a sintaxe da oração e do período. Na Parte VI Ensaio Formal, damos foco a uma generalização exocêntrica: predicados monoargumentais (nomes, verbos e posposições) exibem padrões simétricos de concordância a depender da posição dos argumentos que selecionam. No Capítulo 13 propomos um ensaio formal, nos moldes minimalistas (Chomsky, 1989,1993, 1995, 2000, 2001), para esse quebra-cabeças. A Parte VII Conclusões, com o Capítulo 14 Considerações Finais, levanta alguns desdobramentos que podem ser explorados em trabalhos futuros. Nos apêndices, apresentamos um caderno de imagens do trabalho de campo, uma narrativa interlinearizada e exemplos do léxico utilizado para a formatação de um dicionário preliminar. Palavras-chave: Línguas Indígenas – Arawak – Paresi – Morfossintaxe; Autor: Glauber Romling da Silva; Orientadora: Professora Doutora Bruna Franchetto; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. ABSTRACT Silva, Glauber Romling da. MORPHOSYNTAX OF THE PARESI-HALITI LANGUAGE (ARAWAK). Advisor: Doctor Bruna Franchetto. Rio de Janeiro, 2013. Thesis (PhD in Linguistics) – Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 2013. This thesis aims to describe the main aspects of the Paresi-Haliti grammar, an underdocumented language. In Part I Introduction, we presente in its Chapter 1 Language, People and Documentation the main aspects of the language, its speakers and territory and a reporting of the documentation process. In Chapter 2 Phonology, we present the phonological system with a Features Geometry approach (Clements & Hume, 1995). In Chapter 3 Morphosyntactic Units, we define the notions of grammatical and phonological word. The Part II Open Lexical Categories begins with the description of the nouns in Chapter 4. In Chapter 5, we describe verbs, in their classes, aspect morphology, incorporation and valence-changing processes. The Part III Closed Lexical categories is devoted to the main aspects of postpositions (Chapter 6), adverbs (Chapter 7), adjectives (Chapter 8) and conjunctions (Chapter 9). In Part IV The Left Periphery and Beyond, Chapter 10 seeks to explain the main features of the syntactic distribution of functional categories outside the lexical shell, we call them NMA - FT morphemes (Negation, Mood, Aspect - Focus, Time). At the end of this part, we present what we identify as interjections and ideophones (Chapter 11). In Part V Syntax we finish the descriptive grammar with Chapter 12, which describes the syntax of the sentence and the period. In Part VI Formal Essay, we focus on a exocentric generalization: one-place
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