Submitted by Gabriella Santiago (gabriella.santiago.cac@gmail.com) on 2015-09-30T15:14:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_LidianeSzerwinskCamargos.pdf: 1201455 bytes, checksum: 6683d2926d4ad73192dc531aa9421fd7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Viana(raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2015-09-30T15:48:34Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_LidianeSzerwinskCamargos.pdf: 1201455 bytes, checksum: 6683d2926d4ad73192dc531aa9421fd7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-30T15:48:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_LidianeSzerwinskCamargos.pdf: 1201455 bytes, checksum: 6683d2926d4ad73192dc531aa9421fd7 (MD5) / No presente estudo fizemos (i) um levantamento das publicações linguísticas sobre a língua Boróro, (ii) uma revisão dos estudos sobre as relações gramaticais e o padrão de alinhamento nessa língua, assim como apresentamos uma nova proposta de análise com base em novos dados, mostrando que o Boróro apresenta um padrão de alinhamento ergativo-absolutivo e (iii) uma discussão sobre como são expressas as categorias de modo, de modalidade e de aspecto em Boróro em contraste com as análises precedentes de Crowell (1977), Viana (2003, 2004) e Nonato (2008). ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / In this thesis a three-fold objective was attained: (i) the presentation of a survey of the linguistic publications on the Boróro language, (ii) a review of the literature on the coding of grammatical relations in this language as well as the presentation of a new hypothesis, based on original data, showing that the Boróro language has an ErgativeAbsolutive pattern of alignment, and (iii) a discussion concerning the expression of the categories of Aspect, Mood and Modality in Boróro, as contrasted to the analyses presented in Crowell (1977), Viana (2003, 2004) and Nonato (2008).