In Jê languages, verbs appear in a non-finite form that fulfills a double function: licensing marked TAME semantics in main clauses, and licensing embedded clauses. However, the Panará language lost its non-finite verbal form. This paper examines Panará verbs from both a synchronic and diachronic angle, and in a broader comparative approach with regards to the morphosyntactic behaviour of verbs in the other Jê languages. The main claim is that the non-finite forms prevalent in the Jê family underwent a reanalysis in Panará, resulting in fully finite clauses in all environments.
O povo Manoki (também conhecidos como Irantxe) é uma nação indígena do vale do Juruena, no Mato Grosso. A língua própria dos Manoki é uma variedade da língua mỹky, uma língua isolada. O objetivo do presente artigo é apresentar a situação do povo Manoki, assim como discutir as estratégias sendo adotadas pelo povo Manoki para iniciar um processo a longo prazo de retomar a língua própria entre os membros jovens da comunidade, de forma paralela ao processo de retomada e defesa do território ancestral do povo Manoki.
In this paper I present a description of number in Panará, with singular, dual and plural, and discuss the mass-count properties of Panará nouns. I also describe an until now unattested instance of omnivorous dual in Panará, where one dual morpheme can map to one or more arguments.
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