Variation in Tupi languages: Genealogy, language change, and typology

Variation in Tupi languages: Genealogy, language change, and typology

At least 40 spoken languages form the large tupi family in its subfamilies tupi-Guaraní, Mawé, Aweti, Arikém, Juruna, Mondé, tupari, Mundurukú, ramarama and Puruborá, providing a wealth of data for linguistic studies about variation – variation explained by genetic relations (common origin, ultimately from the presumed language ‘proto-tupi’) or by contact relations with other indigenous or non-...

Language Typology and the Comparison of Languages

While comparison of languages presupposes a common framework neutral to the structures of the languages compared and contrasted, the contemporary grammatical terms and concepts have been developed primarily on the basis of Accusative-type European languages. This has created a great deal of confusion in the universals research. Typological studies in recent years have in part been concerned wit...

Language Review/A New Approach to the Systematic Typology of Languages: Introduction and Review of Fundamentals of Linguistic Typology, Rafe’eh Khoshkhoo

Reduplication in Tupi-Guarani languages: going into opposite directions

The aim of this paper is to investigate verbal stem reduplication in several Tupi-Guarani languages. The study reports mostly on Emerillon, for which the author collected field data in French Guiana, but also on other TupiGuarani languages: Wayampi of French Guiana (Grenand 1980, 1989; Ganozzi, p.c.), Tupinamba (Rodrigues A. 1953), Kamaiura (Seki 2000), Brazilian Wayampi (Jensen 1989), Anambé (...

African languages and linguistic typology