Aspects Of The Case Marking System Of The Suyá Language
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.1999v2n1p231Keywords:
Marking System, Split Case, Suyá Language.Abstract
The Suyá, whose speakers call themselves Kisêdjê, is a language of the Jê family spoken by about 300 individuals living in two villages located in the Xingu Indigenous Park, Mato Grosso, Brazil. This language has a split case of marking system. There is a wider first division, conditioned by the semantic nature of the NP (noun phrase): the simple sentences with S (subject of intransitive verb) or A (subject of transitive verb) have a standard case marking different from what occurs in phrases with pronominal S and A. In the latter, in turn, there is another division conditioned by the categories of time / aspect and negation.Downloads
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1999-07-15
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SANTOS, Ludoviko dos. Aspects Of The Case Marking System Of The Suyá Language. Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, [S. l.], v. 2, n. 1, p. 231–242, 1999. DOI: 10.5433/2237-4876.1999v2n1p231. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/4462. Acesso em: 10 dec. 2025.
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