This dissertation is a description of the grammar of Paresi. The Paresi people live in the
State of Mato Grosso, near the city of Cuiabá. Paresi belongs to the Arawak family, and it is …

O artigo possui o duplo objetivo de introduzir o leitor a um panorama do estado da arte em
estudos diacrônicos das línguas indígenas brasileiras, além de promover uma aplicação …

This report provides a preliminary description of verb morphology in Paresi, including a
linguistic profile and some socio-cultural aspects of the language. The Paresi people, who …

As línguas Apurinã, Piro e Iñapari, membros da família lingüística Aruák, são inicialmente
comparadas com base nos dados utilizados na reconstrução de Payne (1991), e nas …

This article looks at what origin stories teach about the world and what kind of material
presence they have in Southwestern Amazonia. We examine the ways the Apurinã relate to …

This article investigates which semantic categories, as defined in Functional Discourse
Grammar, formally manifest themselves in a sample of native languages of Brazil, and the …

This document is dedicated to a young man, who, despite the number of times he has
traveled around the Sun, is always open to new thoughts on ways to include languages …

This work presents the nominal classification system of Paresi. Paresi is an Arawak
language, spoken in Mato Grosso (Brazil). The data comes from field work in the Formoso …

Este estudo tem como base o trabalho sobre a tipologia linguística desenvolvida pelos
linguistas Edward L. Keenan e Bernard Comrie, formuladores de estratégias de formação …

• The evolution of standard negation (Miestamo 1998) systems has been a major topic in
diachronic morphosyntax dating to the early 20th century.• A number of evolutionary …