The aspectual auxiliary 'tyka' of Karitiana

Authors

  • Andrea Marques de Carvalho Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/rel.v78i0.15822

Keywords:

semântica formal, aspecto verbal, Karitiana

Abstract

This paper investigates the semantics of the word tyka in Karitiana. We defend that the word in focus is an aspectual auxiliary compatible only with sentences of TT > TU and that it represents the aspectual relation of TT C TSit, correspondent in the literature to the imperfective (Klein 1994). Besides marking imperfectivity in sentences in the present or in the future, tyka is an operator that acts over a nominal, selecting only atomic entities of its denotation. According to Landin (1984), it can also bring another morpheme instead of–ka to express the body position of the reference of that nominal.

How to Cite

de Carvalho, A. M. (2009). The aspectual auxiliary ’tyka’ of Karitiana. Revista Letras, 78. https://doi.org/10.5380/rel.v78i0.15822

Issue

Section

Estudos Linguísticos