Verbos em Kaiowá: uma descrição morfológica

Abstract

This dissertation aims to conduct a descriptive study of the flexional morphology and derivational morphology of the class of verbs in Kaiowá, language of sub-branch I of the Tupí-Guaraní family (RODRIGUES, 1984/1985), spoken in Brazil in the southern region of Mato Grosso do Sul. As it is a linguistic-anthropological study, we present a brief historicalanthropological panorama of the Kaiowá people, according to Brand (1993,1997), Pereira (1999, 2004), Chamorro (2008, 2015), Maciel (2012) and Cavalcante (2013). We contemplate in this study the history of the Panambizinho Indigenous Land, because it was where part of the fieldwork took place for the data collection. We also present brief notes on the reality of the indigenous school of Panambizinho, Pa'i Chiquito Pedro, where Kaiowá presents itself as a language of instruction and as a curricular discipline. For this subject, we used the research data of Veron (2013), Pedro e Pedro (2015). Next, we present the linguistic aspects previously made about this language, especially Cardoso (2008). We base ourselves on the typologicalfunctional studies in Bybee (1985), Dixon (2010), Payne (1997) and Givón (1984) for the description of Kaiowá language, as well as descriptive works of other Tupí-Guaraní languages, mainly based in the studies conducted by Rodrigues (1947, 1951, 1953, 1981, 1996, 2001), Rodrigues e Cabral (2005, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2014), Cabral (2001). For the morphological description of the language, we used data collected in the field, partial application of a list of words for indigenous languages elaborated by linguists of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro (GREEN, 1960), and descriptions of previous studies, such as the works of Barros (2014) and Taylor e Taylor (1966). For the description of the flexional categories, we describe the personal prefixes, relational prefixes, the verbal modes in Kaiowá and some aspectual suffixes. For the derivational categories, we describe the category of voice of the language. With this research, we hope to contribute to increase the knowledge of some inflectional and derivational morphological categories of the language and thus these descriptions can serve as a source for the production of didactic materials to be used in Kaiowá language teaching as the first language in Kaiowá indigenous schools.