Demorphologization of the proto-arawakan privative *ma- in Terena
This paper discusses the etymology of two lexical items of Terena, an Arawakan language from southwestern Brazil. Etymologization of the nouns mojénoti ‘orphan’ and moʃêu ‘barren, sterile’ shows that they preserve traces of the Proto-Arawakan Privative prefix *ma-, now demorphologized as part of sy...
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2019-05-01
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| Series: | Liames |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/liames/article/view/8653947 |