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In:Nominalization in Languages of the Americas:
Edited by Roberto Zariquiey, Masayoshi Shibatani and David W. Fleck
[Typological Studies in Language 124] 2019
► pp. 625–655

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Chapter 18
Innovation in nominalization in Tupí-Guaraní languages

A comparative analysis of Tupinambá, Apyãwa and Nheengatú

 | Universidade Federal de Goiás
 | Universidade de Brasília
Published online: 8 August 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.124.18cru
This paper focuses on nominalizations within Tupí-Guaraní, a sub-group of the Tupí linguistic family. For this purpose, we first analyze two very conservative Tupí-Guaraní languages, Tupinambá and Apyãwa (Tapirapé), and then compare them with a very innovative Tupí-Guaraní language, Nheengatú (língua geral). By doing so, we show that the nominalizers are correlated to more general typological properties of the sub-group, such as the omnipredicative pattern. More specifically, we address the historical development of these languages showing that the loss of omnipredicative properties led to the restructuration of the forms and the functions of nominalization.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Languages
  • 3.The omnipredicative pattern in conservative Tupí-Guaraní languages
  • 4.Nominalization in Tupinambá
    • 4.1Deverbal nominalization
    • 4.2Nominalization of other categories
    • 4.3Summary of nominalization in Tupinambá
  • 5.Nominalization in Apyãwa
    • 5.1Deverbal nominalization
    • 5.2Nominalization from other categories
    • 5.3Summary of the nominalizations in Apyãwa
  • 6.Nominalization in Nheengatú
    • 6.1Morphosyntactic background of Nheengatú
    • 6.2Nominalization in Nheengatú
      • 6.2.1Deverbal nominalizations
        • 6.2.1.1Participant nominalization
        • 6.2.1.2Event nominalizations
      • 6.2.2Nominalization from other categories
      • 6.2.3Summary of nominalizations in Nheengatú
  • 7.Comparison of nominalizations in Apyãwa, Tupinambá and Nheengatú
  • 8.Final remarks
  • List of standard abbreviations
  • Notes
  • References
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