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Tradução do artigo "Native ethics and rules of behaviour", escrito por Clare C. Brant, um psiquia... more Tradução do artigo "Native ethics and rules of behaviour", escrito por Clare C. Brant, um psiquiatra da etnia mohawk que trabalhou por muitos anos com indígenas no Canadá.

John W. Du Bois challenges the traditional way of describing Ergativity by explaining the phenome... more John W. Du Bois challenges the traditional way of describing Ergativity by explaining the phenomenon at the discourse level. The corpus he used to prove his point consisted of eighteen texts in Sacapultec Maya. Du Bois does a quantitative analysis of the data available. First, he shows that full NP’s (6.1% of the clauses) or pronouns (7.2%) in the A role are rare in Sacapultec natural texts. On the other hand, as S (48.1% are NPs) and O (45.8%) arguments, they are quite common. Du Bois calls this Preferred Argument Structure (PAS). Next, he analyses the data on a pragmatic level (activation state). The results show that referents introduced for the first time in a Sacapultec text are accommodated preferentially in the S (22.5%) and O (24.7%) roles, rather than in the A role (3.2%). So both the grammatical and the pragmatic dimensions of PAS display an ergative patterning, which can be explained by taking into account the notion of topic continuity and the correlation between new information and heavier morphological marking.

This paper deals with a special variety of taboo words, name taboo, and its similarities with ho... more This paper deals with a
special variety of taboo words, name taboo, and its similarities with honorifics among the
Kamaiura, a Brazilian indigenous group settled in the upper Xingu River area. The kind
of name taboo in focus here is related to avoiding the use of in-law’s proper names. With
this kind of taboo the speakers are not allowed to mention their in-law’s names, even
when they are absent or dead.

Papers by Jackson Rosembach

Na caracterização das classes de palavras, vários estudiosos levam em conta três dimensões das pa... more Na caracterização das classes de palavras, vários estudiosos levam em conta três dimensões das palavras: sua semântica, sua morfologia e sua distribuição sintática (GIVÓN, 1984: 47-77; KROEGER, 2005: 33-34). Se a análise das classes de palavras em kamaiurá fosse feita apenas pelo critério semântico, certamente seria possível dizer que a língua possui uma classe de adjetivos.

This paper explains a few decisions made during the creation of a bilingual mini-dictionary based... more This paper explains a few decisions made during the creation of a bilingual mini-dictionary based on the semantic domain “buying and selling”. The source language for the dictionary was Kamaiura and the target language, English.
Kamaiura (ISO 639-3 – kay) is the language spoken by a people group settled in the upper Xingu River area of central Brazil. The people group is named after the language they speak, which belongs to the Tupi-Guarani family. The Kamaiura live in a reservation called Xingu Indigenous Park, which they share with other indigenous groups. According to the Ethnologue (Lewis et al. 2019), Kamaiura language status is vigorous (6a), being used as L2 by the Aweti people. In 2009, there were 520 speakers of the language.
The mini-dictionary Kamaiura-English has 59 entries and 8 sub-entries. The words selected for the dictionary were mostly nouns (20) and verbs (14). However, there are also a few pronouns (5), adverbs (2), demonstratives (2), particles (5), and so on. The body of the paper will be
explained how the different lexical classes fit in the semantic domain “buying and selling”.

The present paper analyzes lenition and nasalization, two phonological processes found in the Kam... more The present paper analyzes lenition and nasalization, two phonological processes found in the Kamaiura language of Brazil, using the Optimality Theory (OT) framework. Previous phonological analyses of the language used either a structuralist approach or the Classical Generative Phonology model (Silva 1981). This work is the first step toward defining the constraints that are crucial to understanding how the Kamaiura language works. As it will be shown, lenition is the result of derived environment effects. It is triggered when either /p/ or /t/ are the last obstruent of the stem and they are resyllabified due to morpheme concatenation. A locally conjoined constraint that combines LAZY (Kirchner 2000) and R-ANCHOR will be used to explain how lenition is triggered. The fact that /k/ does not undergo lenition in Kamaiura will be explained by invoking the notion of contrast preservation (Łubowicz 2003). As for some instances of nasalization (i.e., the cases where the vowels that are nasalized in a base form will remain nasalized for the whole paradigm), they are also better explained by using the derived environment effect notion. For this, a possible locally conjoined constraint will be proposed. However, the mechanism of output-output correspondence (Kager 1999) will be invoked at the end as the easiest solution to the problem.

Some languages of South America that belong to the Tupi-Guarani family display a special verb for... more Some languages of South America that belong to the Tupi-Guarani family display a special verb form that is triggered when an adverbial element is in the left periphery (Jensen 1998; Vieira 2014). Kamaiura is one of these languages. It has a verb form labeled 'circumstantial mode' (Seki 2000, 131), which is further restricted to only occurring when the subject is third person. Previous analyses on other Tupi-Guarani languages have suggested that the fronted oblique is either the focus (Dobson 1987; Vieira 2014) or the topic (Payne 1994) of an utterance. In Kamaiura the fronted adverbials are part of the focus domain (cf. Van Valin 2005, 77), but they can also be frame setters (cf. Krifka 2007, 45) when they are not focalized. The triggers of circumstantial mode are the focus when they behave as such in tests involving question-answer pairs, association with focus, and negation (cf. Kanerva 1990, 154; Kaufmann 2005). In question-answer pairs, the fronted oblique in the answer indicates the focus since it replaces the question word. Focus sensitive particles often put the fronted oblique under their scope, indicating that the element in the left periphery is the focus. Frame setters are distinguished from focus by their position in the sentence and their function. They are fronted adjuncts to the main clause and their function is to establish a domain, such as time, and space (cf. Chafe 1994, 128), which will serve for the interpretation of the proposition that follows. The analysis presented in this paper also shows that circumstantial morphology is precluded in medial verbs that are part of a clause chain. Such constraint indicates that an adverbial element in the left periphery and a third-person subject are not enough for the oblique-fronting construction to occur. These findings point to a connection between morphology and discourse structure.

Misunderstandings are one of the outcomes of unsuccessful communications. It occurs when the addr... more Misunderstandings are one of the outcomes of unsuccessful communications. It occurs when the addressee does not realize that the interpretation he derived from an utterance was not the one intended by the speaker. In this paper, misunderstanding is analyzed through the lens of Relevance Theory. It occurs as a result of failures in the pragmatics processes that take place from the moment the addressee hears an utterance until he reaches the interpretation that satisfies his expectation of relevance. The pragmatic processes presented in this paper are saturation (e.g. pronoun assignment), disambiguation, enrichment, ad hoc concepts, accessing explicatures, and deriving implicatures. It will be shown that even if one of the processes is not properly followed, misunderstanding may occur.

General revelation refers to the concept that knowledge of God can be experienced independent of ... more General revelation refers to the concept that knowledge of God can be experienced independent of biblical revelation. This paper considers the epistemic possibilities of general revelation, specifically as they are applied in the writings of Don Richardson. Richardson is a missiologist who created a new term to refer to general revelation: the Melchizedek factor. This new way of looking at the theoretical concept of general revelation as the Melchizedek factor facilitates application in the realm of real life. An application of this type is explored in this paper by analyzing the mythology of a non-evangelized indigenous people group in Brazil, the Apyap. A connection is shown between the themes mentioned in the myth and biblical doctrines.

This paper focuses on presenting the different types of marked topics in Brazilian Portuguese. Th... more This paper focuses on presenting the different types of marked topics in Brazilian Portuguese. The topics in this paper will be divided according to their semantic interpretation and syntactic behaviors, such as different readings, sentence position, and agreement. Marked topics can have an aboutness reading and a contrastive reading depending on the context. Aboutness topics occur only in the left periphery of the sentence. Contrastive topics can occur in a variety of positions, including the low periphery of the sentence. Among the marked topics in Brazilian Portuguese, there is one class that triggers verb agreement. Those are genitive and locative constituents which are part of the complement of certain unaccusative verbs. A few tests will be used to confirm that we are dealing with topics not focus. It is going to be shown, for example, that what has been called a low topic, in some contexts should be analyzed as focus instead. These are a marked element when a false presupposition is being corrected. In addition, the possibility of relativization will be used as a test to differentiate between topicalization and hanging topics. Finally, resumptive pronoun usage will be analyzed in an attempt to answer the question: In Brazilian Portuguese, do resumptive pronouns function as agreement markers (cf. Givón, 1976:154-156) or as topic markers (cf. Pontes, 1987: 30)?

This paper analyses a “turn-taking” type of conversation between two characters of the series Riv... more This paper analyses a “turn-taking” type of conversation between two characters of the series Riverdale (Appendix A). The analysis of the dialogue is based on approaches to utterance interpretation used in Semantics and Pragmatics, such as Relevance Theory, Speech Act Theory and the Conceptual Metaphor approach. Riverdale (Moranville & Seidenglanz; 2017) is an American teen drama series based on Archie Comics. Riverdale is also the name of the town where the series takes place. The main characters in the story are high school students dealing with love, school, and family issues.