The adjective class in Deni (Arawá)

Bibliographic Data

ID5072298
AuthorsMateus Cruz Maciel De Carvalho (0000-0003-0341-3612)
Year2018
Volume18
Issue2
Pages253-286
Publication date2018-12-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLIAMES Línguas Indígenas Americanas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1678-0531 • E-ISSN: 2177-7160
PublisherUniversidade Estadual de Campinas (PUBLISHER • BR)
DOI10.20396/liames.v18i2.8653245
OpenAlexW2920000979
LanguageEN
References cited23

In the last three decades, adjectives have played an important role in the typology of parts-of-speech systems in terms of which meanings are cross-linguistically expressed by members of this class, and whether all languages in the world have an adjective class at all. In this paper, the focus is on the property-concept words in Deni, an Arawá language spoken by about 1,600 people who live in ten villages in Southern Amazonia, Amazonas State, Brazil. The analysis of property-concept lexical items in Deni has led me to assign them to a part-of-speech class which is distinct from those of verbs and nouns. The assignment has followed the Deni-specific criteria for recognizing the verb, noun, and adjective classes.keywords: Adjectives; Deni language; parts of speech

Adjective · Class (philosophy · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Linguistics · Noun · Part of speech · Property (philosophy · Sociology · Typology · Verb · Anthropology · Computer Science · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence · Philosophy