Aspectos morfológicos do terena (aruák)

Abstract

The aim of this work was to describe morphological aspects on Terena language, from Aruák family, spoken by the Terena people, such description refers to the noun and the verb. Due to the proportion of Terena communities located in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, this work was developed on neighboring communities, Bananal e Lagoinha in the region of Taunay, located 70 kilometers from Aquidauana/Ms. We did field work based on some authors like Samarin (1967), Kibrik (1977), Abbi (2001) and others. We used a digital recorder to record the data that were phonetically transcribed and analyzed under the Givon’s functionalist perspective (1984, 2001), Haan (2009), Payne (2001), Shopen (1992). The work was divided into four chapters. The first presents the historical background of the Terena people, the second is a general outline on the tongue, and Terena Arawak family, in the third presents general aspects of nominal morphology, in the fourth, it presents a description of verbal morphemes Terena.Through the analysis, it was observed that the Terena language is an agglutinative language, in which noun and verb have a large amount of morphemes. Names can be marked as the possession, gender, number, and pronouns. Verbs have inflectional morphemes and derivational, including pronominal markers, length, realis / irrealis, aspect, voice, verbalizers, nominalizers, among others.