Resumo: O presente artigo consiste em uma versão ampliada de estudos fonológicos anteriores da língua Arara (Karib). O quadro de segmentos fonêmicos é revisado à luz de discussões fomentadas por um maior volume de dados e interações morfofonológicas. A assimilação é o principal processo fonológico encontrado na língua. Fenômenos ainda não descritos no dialeto em estudo, como o ablaut e a elisão, são apresentados. Os dados são provenientes de trabalho de campo realizado principalmente entre os Arara, cujo dialeto é falado na aldeia Cachoeira Seca do Iriri, no estado do Pará, Brasil. Palavras-chave:Língua Arara do Pará. Fonologia. Processos assimilatórios. Abstract:This article is an expanded version of previous phonological studies of the Arara language (Carib). The phonemic segments are presented in the light of discussions fostered by a greater volume of data and morphophonological interactions. Assimilation is the main phonological process found in the language. Some phenomena that have not yet been described for this specific dialect, such as ablaut and elision, are presented. The data comes from fieldwork conducted among the Arara people, whose dialect is spoken in the village of Cachoeira Seca do Iriri, state of Pará, Brazil.
This dissertation is a descriptive study on the morphophonology and morphosyntax of the Arara language, a member of the Karib linguistic family. The main goal of the study is to understand how the grammatical categories of Tense, Aspect and Mood (TAM) interact with the marking of person and number on the predicate. Some person morphemes as well as number morphemes are selected by certain TAM properties of the sentence. To account for the full understanding of the interactions, the analyses include general morphophological processes and morphosyntactic aspects to which these morphemes are subject. In addition, some semanticpragmatic properties are described. Morphemes are subject to processes of assimilation of sonority and nasality, as well as ablaut. There are also some suppletive allomorphs and portamanteau morphemes. TAM suffixes mark tense: three degrees of past (immediate, medial, distant) and future; aspects-imperative, iterative, imperfect used only in the distant past, resumptive; and mood-imperative, hortative, vetitive (prohibitive), permissive, admonitive, interrogative, intentional and frustrative. When inflected for these tense and aspect categories, the person prefixes of the verbs interact with a person hierarchy in transitive verbs and with two classes of intransitive verbs. Transitive verbs can be inflected with two sets of different personal prefixes, A and O, while each class of intransitive verbs can be inflected by one of the personal prefixes that are similar to the ones found with the transitive verbs, either the SA or SO series of prefixes. Personal prefixes of verbs inflected for all the mentioned moods form smaller paradigms, which are composed by a restricted number of person markers. Regarding the number category, there are distinct morphemes that occur with certain TAM inflections. Specific number morphemes occur only with the third person of the distant past and the third person of the medial past. In this way, the plural is marked by different suffixes in the same paradigm. Non-verbal constructions are also addressed. In these constructions, the TAM category is expressed by particles and morphemes of nominal tense when the copula is absent or by TAM morphemes if the verbal copula itxi is in the predication. The methodology employed is to perform analyses consistent with the internal structures of the language. These analyses are based on analytical concepts from typological funcionalist and historicalcomparative literature. We used data from fieldwork, which consists of texts and sentences.
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