Artigo
Semantic categories in the indigenous languages of Brazil
Fecha
2012-01-01Registro en:
Functions of Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, v. 19, n. 1, p. 38-57, 2012.
0929-998X
10.1075/fol.19.1.02hen
WOS:000302846000005
Autor
Univ Amsterdam
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Resumen
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 extent to which the distribution of these manifestations across categories can be described systematically in terms of implicational hierarchies. The areas subjected to investigation are basic interrogative words, basic demonstrative words, and nominalization strategies.