Aspects Of The Case Marking System Of The Suyá Language

Authors

  • Ludoviko dos Santos Universidade Estadual de Londrina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.1999v2n1p231

Keywords:

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.

Author Biography

Ludoviko dos Santos, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Ludoviko dos Santos possui graduação em Letras Português pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (1976), mestrado em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (1979) e doutorado em Lingüística pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (1997).

Published

1999-07-15

How to Cite

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: 22 jul. 2024.