This report provides a preliminary description of verb morphology in Paresi, including a linguistic profile and some socio-cultural aspects of the language. The Paresi people, who number approximately 2000, live in the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil. To date the Paresi language has had limited documentation. Chapter 1 provides background information on Paresi. Chapter 2 provides some typologically important information. Paresi segmental phonology is simple, morphophonemic alternations occur with pronominal markers and some stems. Stress is on the penultimate syllable, with some exceptions. Nouns, verbs and adjectives are distinguishable. In Paresi, nouns prototypically are roots that, morphologically, have affixes indicating number, and possessed markers. Chapter 3 describes the verb classes. Paresi verb roots can be intransitive, transitive or ambitransitive. Chapter 4 addresses the valence-changing operations occurring with verbs, such as causative constructions. Chapter 5 describes the tense, aspect and mood systems, with a discussion of the spatial and aspectual meanings of some morphemes. Chapter 6 provides an overview of the different negation strategies. Chapter 7 provides a summary and final considerations on Paresi verb morphology. / text

This dissertation is a description of the grammar of Paresi. The Paresi people live in the State of Mato Grosso, near the city of Cuiabá. Paresi belongs to the Arawak family, and it is classified in a branch called Paresi-Xingu (Aikhenvald, 1999; Ramirez, 2001). This language is spoken by approximately 2000 speakers. The data for this thesis were collected mostly in the Formoso area. In this dissertation, I expand on the work of Rowan (1969, 1978, among other works), Silva (2009), and on my own work conducted in my Master's report (Brandão, 2010) in order to provide a comprehensive analysis of aspects of phonology, morphology, and syntax. The grammar is presented in eight chapters and an appendix with text samples. The first chapter includes general information about the speakers and the language. The second chapter describes the sound system. The segmental phonology is simple, with morphophonemic alternations on some roots and morphemes. The third chapter describes the closed words classes (pronouns, demonstratives, indefinites, numerals, quantifiers, postpositions, adverbs, interjections and ideophones). The fourth chapter examines nouns and the structure of noun phrases. The fifth and sixth chapters are descriptions of verb classes, valency, tense, aspect and modality. Verb roots can be intransitive, transitive, or ditransitive. There are three mechanisms to decrease valency and six mechanisms to increase valency. Paresi expresses time through tense, aspect, and temporal adverbs. It also distinguishes three modalities. The seventh chapter is about simple clauses and negation. In this chapter, evidence is presented for describing Paresi as an OV language. Finally, the eighth chapter, on clause combining, describes coordination and the three types of subordination: relative clauses, complementation and adverbial clauses. Grounded primarily in “basic linguistic theory”, this dissertation uses a Functional-Typological linguistic framework, informed by discussions about particular phenomena in the general linguistics literature. / text

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-03-03Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:03:05Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 maciel_mra_dr_botfca.pdf: 16708336 bytes, checksum: 9d2feec8ff906665af433e2516187ccc (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Na busca por alimentos os seres humanos vêm, ao longo do tempo desenvolvendo formas e técnicas ou de coleta ou de produção, para obter o que lhes é necessário para a sobrevivência física. Assim, o surgimento da agricultura produziu os impactos de uma revolução social e cultural sobre a humanidade há cerca de dez ou doze mil anos atrás. Entre os povos que desenvolveram agricultura estão os indígenas das Américas. No Brasil habitam cerca de 460 mil índios, e mais da metade da população indígena está localizada nas regiões Norte e Centro-Oeste do país. Os Paresi, que se autodenominam Halíti, são habitantes tradicionais dos chapadões do estado do Mato Grosso. Este grupo indígena está inserido em uma área ecotonal de cerrado e Amazônia que, ao longo do tempo, tem sofrido diversos tipos de exploração, o que ocasiona dificuldades para sua sustentação e sobrevivência física. A pesquisa de campo ocorreu no período de 2008 a 2009, na aldeia Paraíso, situada na Terra Indígena (T.I.) Juininha, município de Tangará da Serra, MT. O objetivo principal foi descrever e interpretar em profundidade as práticas agrícolas tradicionais indígenas da etnia Paresi no cultivo e coleta de plantas alimentícias. O trabalho de campo foi realizado por meio de abordagem qualitativa, utilizando entrevistas não estruturadas e semi-estruturadas, conversas informais e observação participante ativa. Paralelamente a esta atividade, as plantas, citadas como alimento, foram fotografadas, para identificação botânica. Como resultado verificou-se, que nas atividades da roça distinguiram-se as seguintes etapas componentes do calendário agrícola: escolha da área, broca, derrubada, queimada, coivara, plantio, tratos culturais, oferecimento, colheita e replantio. Além disso, algumas plantas são toleradas ou manejadas dentro e no entorno da roça, como o timbó usado na pesca... / In the search for food, human beings have over time developed systems and technologies, or the collection or production to get what they need for physical survival. Thus the emergence of agriculture has produced the impacts of social and cultural revolution on humanity about ten or twelve thousand years ago. Among people who developed agriculture are the indigenous people of the Americas. In Brazil there are 460 thousand Indians, and more than half of them is located in the North and Midwest of the country. Paresi Indians who call themselves Haliti, are traditional inhabitants of the Plains of the state of Mato Grosso. This indigenous group is housed in an area of deciduous savanna and Amazon, which over time has undergone various kinds of exploitation, causing difficulties for their support and physical survival. The fieldwork took place from 2008 to 2009, the village located in Paradise settlement, Juininha Indigenous Land, city of Tangará da Serra, MT. The main objective was to describe the traditional agricultural practices of the Paresi, the cultivation and collection of food plants. The field work was conducted through a qualitative approach, using unstructured and semi-structured interviews, informal conversations and active participant observation . Alongside this activity, the plants mentioned as food were photographed for botanical identification. As a result it was found that the activities of the farm distinguished the following stages of the agricultural calendar components: choice of the area, drill, felling, burning, slash, planting, cultivation, delivery, harvest and replanting. In addition, some plants are tolerated or managed in and around the farm, such as fish poison used in fishing. Five landraces of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) grown in the selected field were detected. The roots are harvested and processed by the women who turn into a type of drink called... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Resumo: Na busca por alimentos os seres humanos vêm, ao longo do tempo desenvolvendo formas e técnicas ou de coleta ou de produção, para obter o que lhes é necessário para a sobrevivência física. Assim, o surgimento da agricultura produziu os impactos de uma revolução social e cultural sobre a humanidade há cerca de dez ou doze mil anos atrás. Entre os povos que desenvolveram agricultura estão os indígenas das Américas. No Brasil habitam cerca de 460 mil índios, e mais da metade da população indígena está localizada nas regiões Norte e Centro-Oeste do país. Os Paresi, que se autodenominam Halíti, são habitantes tradicionais dos chapadões do estado do Mato Grosso. Este grupo indígena está inserido em uma área ecotonal de cerrado e Amazônia que, ao longo do tempo, tem sofrido diversos tipos de exploração, o que ocasiona dificuldades para sua sustentação e sobrevivência física. A pesquisa de campo ocorreu no período de 2008 a 2009, na aldeia Paraíso, situada na Terra Indígena (T.I.) Juininha, município de Tangará da Serra, MT. O objetivo principal foi descrever e interpretar em profundidade as práticas agrícolas tradicionais indígenas da etnia Paresi no cultivo e coleta de plantas alimentícias. O trabalho de campo foi realizado por meio de abordagem qualitativa, utilizando entrevistas não estruturadas e semi-estruturadas, conversas informais e observação participante ativa. Paralelamente a esta atividade, as plantas, citadas como alimento, foram fotografadas, para identificação botânica. Como resultado verificou-se, que nas atividades da roça distinguiram-se as seguintes etapas componentes do calendário agrícola: escolha da área, broca, derrubada, queimada, coivara, plantio, tratos culturais, oferecimento, colheita e replantio. Além disso, algumas plantas são toleradas ou manejadas dentro e no entorno da roça, como o timbó usado na pesca... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: In the search for food, human beings have over time developed systems and technologies, or the collection or production to get what they need for physical survival. Thus the emergence of agriculture has produced the impacts of social and cultural revolution on humanity about ten or twelve thousand years ago. Among people who developed agriculture are the indigenous people of the Americas. In Brazil there are 460 thousand Indians, and more than half of them is located in the North and Midwest of the country. Paresi Indians who call themselves Haliti, are traditional inhabitants of the Plains of the state of Mato Grosso. This indigenous group is housed in an area of deciduous savanna and Amazon, which over time has undergone various kinds of exploitation, causing difficulties for their support and physical survival. The fieldwork took place from 2008 to 2009, the village located in Paradise settlement, Juininha Indigenous Land, city of Tangará da Serra, MT. The main objective was to describe the traditional agricultural practices of the Paresi, the cultivation and collection of food plants. The field work was conducted through a qualitative approach, using unstructured and semi-structured interviews, informal conversations and active participant observation . Alongside this activity, the plants mentioned as food were photographed for botanical identification. As a result it was found that the activities of the farm distinguished the following stages of the agricultural calendar components: choice of the area, drill, felling, burning, slash, planting, cultivation, delivery, harvest and replanting. In addition, some plants are tolerated or managed in and around the farm, such as fish poison used in fishing. Five landraces of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) grown in the selected field were detected. The roots are harvested and processed by the women who turn into a type of drink called... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Orientador: Lin Chau Ming / Coorientador: Isabel de Carvalho / Banca: Sarita Leonel / Banca: Maristela Simões do Carmo / Banca: Germano Guarim Neto / Banca: Maria José Alencar Vilela / Doutor

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T13:54:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EmaMSS_DISSERT.pdf: 1872781 bytes, checksum: 0fc5e282949128f381a4fdbfddb1106b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-04 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The proposal of the present study is to get to know and to analyze the building up of the culture notion among the participants of the Paresi Kozarini group in the ethnodevelopment context. The main focus is the ethnographic study, presenting a description of Aldeia Rio Verde (Paresi Indigenous Land), understanding it as a synthesis of historic processes which explains the current moment of Paresi Indigenous group. By using the mentioned methodology, the processes and social relations produced along the contact path of this group with regional-national culture were focused, and how that contact affects the present. The research questions which concern the present study refer to the processes of identification of the researched subjects about themselves and in relation to others. According as almost the totality of the indigenous group we usually know as Paresi, recognize itself as Kozarini, the attention is directed to the manner how they see themselves and how they differ from the other Paresi groups, not indigenous people, and other indigenous groups; and which meanings of the prefix ethno- (which culture elements) they have elected to represent and manage external matters to their culture and society, in the context of discussions about ethnodevelopment / A proposta deste estudo ? conhecer e analisar a constru??o da no??o de cultura entre o grupo Paresi Kozarini no contexto do etnodesenvolvimento. Nosso enfoque principal ? estudo etnogr?fico, onde descreveremos a Aldeia Rio Verde (Terra Ind?gena Paresi), entendendo-a como s?ntese dos processos hist?ricos, que traduzem o atual momento do grupo Ind?gena Paresi. Com a utiliza??o dessa metodologia, foram focalizados os processos e rela??es sociais engendradas ao longo da trajet?ria de contato desse grupo com a cultura regional-nacional, e no modo como isso repercute no presente. As quest?es de pesquisa que nortearam este estudo referem-se aos processos de identifica??o dos sujeitos pesquisados sobre si mesmos e em rela??o aos outros. Nessa linha de pesquisa, na medida em que a quase totalidade do grupo ind?gena que conhecemos, usualmente, como Paresi se autoreconhece como Kozarini, atenta-se para o modo como se veem e como se diferenciam perante aos demais grupos Paresi, os n?o ?ndios e outros grupos ind?genas; e quais os sentidos do prefixo etno- (quais elementos da cultura) que elegeram para se representarem e administrarem as quest?es externas a sua cultura e sociedade, no contexto das discuss?es sobre o etnodesenvolvimento