SABERES TRADICIONAIS TUPI: ESTAR JUNTO, APRENDER, NHEMBOJERA

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-...

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 (...

Editorial (en español)

Los profesores de Ingeniería deberían considerar siempre la participación en algún nivel de formación profesional en teoría y práctica educacional. Algunos argumentarían que esto es especialmente importante en el siglo XXI, porque los estudiantes de hoy pueden aprender utilizando nuevos modelos habilitados por Internet y el auge de los medios sociales. Es cierto que el desarrollo de modelos teó...

Processing Spanish ser and estar: Discourse and Gender-Based Differences

Background: Spanish copulas ser and estar (translated as English “be”) have distinct distributional patterns [1,2,3,4,5]. Locative predicates typically appear with estar, while nominal predicates typically appear with ser. Adjectival predicates sometimes, but not always, may combine with either copula, and this gives rise to differing interpretations. Crucially for our purposes, individuallevel...

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