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Title:
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Lexical Study of the Matis Language - Subsidies for a bilingual dictionary
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Author:
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Vitória Ferreira
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Email:
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Degree Awarded:
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
, Linguistic
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Degree Date:
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2005
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Language Documentation
Lexicography
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Subject Language(s):
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Matís
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Language Family(ies):
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Panoan
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Director(s):
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Angel Corbera Mori
Waldemar Netto
John Schmitz
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Abstract:
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The objective of this dissertation is to present the lexicon of the Matis language through a matis-portuguese bilingual dictionary. Matis language belongs to Pano family languages and 250 persons at the Amazonas State, Brazil speak it. The majority of Matis speakers are monolingual people. This work contains an ethno-history of Matis people, their contemporary way of life and their language, as well some characteristics of the Pano family languages. We also present a study about some fundaments of lexicology, lexicography and lexicographical work. The relations among lexicography, lexicology, and semantics are shown in a specific topic. We consider bilingual dictionaries, taking a comparison among five indigenous - portuguese bilingual dictionaries. At the first part of the dissertation we explain the proceedings taken in the compilation of matis dictionary, calling the attention of the reader to the fact that these proceedings follow the lexicographical methodology.
On this dissertation, we present yet a chapter about some descriptive morphosyntax topics in Matis language in order to allow the reader to understand better the entries. Finally, the Matis dictionary is preceded by some explanation about its organization.
The dictionary presented on this work has 1547 entries, organized in an alphabetical sequence. The recordings of them are phonological, and each entry contains: grammatical, semantics, and pragmatics information.
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