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Ideofones em umbundo
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Esta dissertação propõe-se descrever e analisar os ideofones em umbundo, a língua do
grupo banto mais falada em Angola de acordo com o censo nacional de 2014. Não
obstante a existência de diversos estudos sobre o umbundo, há poucas referências a esta
classe de palavras, que é atestada num amplo leque de línguas tipologicamente distintas,
incluindo as do grupo banto, e cujo estudo constitui uma área de investigação
relativamente jovem e cada vez mais autónoma.
O ponto de partida deste trabalho consiste num corpus de ideofones, baseado nos
dados contidos num artigo de Tchimboto & Putu (2017) e na recolha e elicitação de
dados adicionais pelo autor, enquanto falante nativo do umbundo, tendo por objetivo
fornecer uma primeira caracterização das propriedades fonológicas, morfológicas,
sintáticas, semânticas e discursivas dos ideofones nesta língua para, deste modo,
estabelecer critérios para a sua identificação enquanto classe de palavras.
Os critérios identificados aplicam-se total ou parcialmente a esta classe de
palavras, que, ainda assim, se caracteriza por um elevado grau de heterogeneidade
interna em termos das suas propriedades gramaticais e extralinguísticas. Verificámos
que as restrições combinatórias muitas vezes apontadas aos ideofones não são
transversais às diferentes estruturas sintáticas analisadas, sendo necessário distinguir
entre ideofones adverbiais que modificam VPs e (os mesmos) ideofones em outras
construções. Tal como em outras línguas, a particularidade destes itens lexicais também
se faz notar na morfologia e fonologia, já que, por um lado, não apresentam,
tipicamente, a morfologia de concordância característica do banto e, por outro lado,
exibem processos de reduplicação (inerente), tonais e prosódicos que, em muitos casos,
se encontram ao serviço da evocação de imagens por via das palavras.
This thesis aims to describe and analyze ideophones in Umbundu, the most spoken Bantu language in Angola according to the 2014 national census. Despite the existence of several studies on Umbundu, there is very little information about this class of words, which is attested in a wide range of typologically different languages, including Bantu languages, and whose study constitutes a relatively young and increasingly autonomous research domain. The starting point of this work consists of a corpus of ideophones, based on the data included in a paper by Tchimboto & Putu (2017), as well as the collection and elicitation of additional data by the author, who is a native speaker of Umbundu. The main goal is to provide a first characterization of phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic and discursive properties of ideophones in this language, in order to establish criteria for their identification as a special word class. The criteria that are identified apply fully or partially to the class of ideophones, which, however, are characterized by a high degree of internal heterogeneity with respect to their grammatical and extralinguistic features. We found that the combinatorial restrictions often assigned to ideophones are not transversal to the different syntactic structures analyzed. A distinction should be made between adverbial ideophones that modify VPs and (the same) ideophones in other constructions. As in other languages, the particularity of these lexical items is also noted in morphology and phonology, since, on the one hand, they do not typically present the agreement morphology characteristic of Bantu languages and, on the other hand, they exhibit (inherent) reduplication, tonal, and prosodic processes which are often at the service of evoking imagery through the use of words.
This thesis aims to describe and analyze ideophones in Umbundu, the most spoken Bantu language in Angola according to the 2014 national census. Despite the existence of several studies on Umbundu, there is very little information about this class of words, which is attested in a wide range of typologically different languages, including Bantu languages, and whose study constitutes a relatively young and increasingly autonomous research domain. The starting point of this work consists of a corpus of ideophones, based on the data included in a paper by Tchimboto & Putu (2017), as well as the collection and elicitation of additional data by the author, who is a native speaker of Umbundu. The main goal is to provide a first characterization of phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic and discursive properties of ideophones in this language, in order to establish criteria for their identification as a special word class. The criteria that are identified apply fully or partially to the class of ideophones, which, however, are characterized by a high degree of internal heterogeneity with respect to their grammatical and extralinguistic features. We found that the combinatorial restrictions often assigned to ideophones are not transversal to the different syntactic structures analyzed. A distinction should be made between adverbial ideophones that modify VPs and (the same) ideophones in other constructions. As in other languages, the particularity of these lexical items is also noted in morphology and phonology, since, on the one hand, they do not typically present the agreement morphology characteristic of Bantu languages and, on the other hand, they exhibit (inherent) reduplication, tonal, and prosodic processes which are often at the service of evoking imagery through the use of words.
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Língua umbundu - Ideofones Teses de mestrado - 2020