Proformas negativas e interrogativas em Sateré-mawé

Abstract

The aim of this article is to present the systematization of an analysis of the morphosemantic correlation of interrogative and negative proforms of Sateré-Mawé language, whose population corresponds to approximately 12 thousand people. Sateré-Mawé people live in Andirá-Marau Indigenous Reserve, located in the border region of the Amazonas and Para states, and its language is classified as the only member of Mawé family, constituent of linguistic trunk Tupi. The referred analysis was based in a corpus, constituted by oral and written texts. The oral texts were collected in real contexts of communication and the written ones were produced by teachers who act in the communities from indigenous area. The correlation between interrogation and negation in Sateré-Mawé linguistic system is considerable interesting, since negative proforms are formed from interrogative proforms through the affixation of the morpheme ɨt...ʔi, negation indicator. Notably, the negative proforms don’t just keep the morphologic characteristics of the interrogative proforms, but also their basic semantic value, as we will present in this text.