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NomeSantiago Durante
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Sua instituiçãoUniversidad Nacional de Hurlingham - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas UNAHUR - CONICET
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País de origem do autorArgentina
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Área Temática17. Linguística y Literatura
Grupo TemáticoDetermination and definiteness in the languages of the Americas/Determinación y definitud en las lenguas de América
TítuloDetermination and definiteness in Ayoreo (zamucoan)
Resumo

The Ayoreo people are a hunter-gatherer group of South American Gran Chaco. Census data on population and housing carried out in 2012 in Paraguay and Bolivia showed a total of 1862 Ayoreode in Bolivia (CEDIB 2012) and 2481 in Paraguay (DGEEC 2012). The language lacks a clear paradigm of articles. However, definiteness may be marked by possessive prefixes and demonstratives serving as determiners of the noun (mandatory for body parts and kinship terms) and demonstrative pronouns.

(1) Ajojai ch-ise d -achid-i.
Ajojai 3-find 3POSS -pet-MSG
Ajojai finds his pet.
(2) Benito ude ayo-e Enga Santiago Ude pooo-i.
Benito DEM.PROX.SG ayore-MSG CONJ Santiago DEM.PROX.SG white-MSG
Benito is ayore and Santiago is white.

In addition, indefinite (specific and non-specific) referents may be marked by an indefinite article and by some quantifiers.

(3) Y-icadigui jetiga y-ioedie cucha-pibos-ode.
1SG-forget SUB 1SG-buy any-food-MPL
I forgot to buy food.

(4) Tamoco-ique po.
dog- INDF 3-bark
A dog barks.

Within the frame of reference theory (Kibrik 2011; Lehmann 2017, among others), a first characterization of determination and definiteness is intended.

The specific questions guiding this communication are as follows:

a) What role does determination play in the reference establishment?
b) How does the Ayoreo language carry out the expression of determination?
c) In which way does the language indicate definiteness?
d) What are its formal-structural properties?
e) How are they used in specific constructions?

References:
Kibrik, A. 2011. Reference in Discourse . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lehmann, Ch. 2017. Reference: Basic concepts. Available at: http://www.christianlehmann.eu/presentations/refer/basic_concepts/index.html [Accessed 24 Apr. 2023].
CEDIB. 2012. Indigenous Who Wins, Who Loses? . [online] Available at: http://cedib.org/tag/censo-2012/ [Accessed 24 Apr. 2023].
DGEEC. 2012. DGEEC: General Directorate of Statistics,

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Palavras-chave
  • AYOREO
  • ZAMUCOAN
  • REFERENCE
  • DETERMINATION
  • DEFINITENESS