Nominal Morphology Aspects of the Kỳikatêjê Language
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Kỳikatêjê language, names, morphologyAbstract
In this article, we present some aspects of the nominal morphology of the Kỳikatêjê language1 . Initially, we present an overview of the Kỳikatêjê language and people form Kôjakati village. Next, we describe the types of names in the language and their grammatical properties, such as number and gender. Finally, we discuss some aspects of the derivational morphology of names in Kỳikatêjê, namely, attenuation, intensification and composition. We aim to contribute to Jê languages studies, to a greater and better understanding of word class and to the study of the language in the school environment, since the current state of the language is obsolescence, being spoken only by the elderly and in contexts each time more restricted in the social domains in the Kôjakati village.
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