Publication details
Os substantivos de sentimentos em kaingang
| Title in English | The sentiments' nouns in Kaingang |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Web | cf. below |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | polysemy;semic analysis;semantics;sentiments nouns;field enquiry;comparative semantics;synchrony;saussurian sign;kaingang |
| Description | In this article, we put at the portuguese-speaking community disposal the different contributions, in semantics and morphology, of the field work conducted in Brazil with kaingang speakers. We try to show how, based on some morphemes which we label as generic morphemes, Kaingang can generate an entire lexical semantic field. For our display, we particularly focus on the sentiments’ one, engendered thanks to fe which could traduced to English by ‘ heart ’ |