Journal of Universal Language
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Body-Part Morphemes in Matis (Panoan)

Raphael Augusto Oliveira Barbosa1,
1University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil
Raphael Augusto Oliveira Barbosa, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Classical and Vernacular Letters, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, Email: raphael.aob@gmail.com

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Received: Jul 28, 2020; Revised: Sep 23, 2020; Accepted: Mar 09, 2021

Published Online: Mar 31, 2021

Abstract

Grammatical and pragmatic aspects of body-part constructions represent relevant theme for typological and functional researches in the Amerindian languages. Despite the researches on body-part morphemes in the Matis language since the beginning of the 21st century, studies have been restricted to brief inventories and to the description of isolated clauses. In the present article, I describe the extended body-part inventory and the typological aspects of the Matis body-part morphemes. In doing so, it is proposed the systemic functional analysis of its lexicogrammatical features and pragmatic properties in contextual constructions of narratives collected in fieldwork. The findings of this analysis shows that, in clause chaining constructions, the functional relation of body-part morphemes and its possessor is established on referential progression by means of the participant agreement in the switch-reference system. Moreover, prefixed verbs can be preceded by the correspondent body-part nouns to convey focus expression, and polysyllabic nouns can also indicate topic function when structured at the beginning of the clause. The systemic functional analysis of the body-part morphemes through textual data seek to collaborate on the knowledge of the interaction between lexicogrammatical and pragmatic systems in the Matis language.

Keywords: body-part typology; reduplication; switch-reference; metaphor; information structure; systemic functional grammar; Matis narratives; Panoan family

1. Introduction

Matis language has 30 body-part prefixes, which are attached to adjectives of colour and mainly verbs of action, to indicate bodily references of absolutive arguments. Studies of the Matis body-part morphemes have been restricted to brief inventories and to the description of isolated clauses. In the present article, I describe the extended body-part inventory and the typological aspects of these morphemes in the Matis language. With this in view, it is proposed an innovative systemic functional analysis of its lexicogrammatical features and pragmatic properties in clause-chaining constructions of narratives collected in fieldwork.

Matis people live in the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory (in three villages called Paraiso, Tawaya and Kuraya), and in the town of Atalaia do Norte (home to several indigenous families from the Javari Valley), west of the state of Amazonas, Brazil. The language is spoken in the villages and also in the city, where the people communicate in their native language, except in commercial and educational contexts in which Portuguese language is used. According to Social-Environmental Institute (ISA 2014), Matis population was about 457 individuals in 2014.

This language belongs to Panoan family, which has approximately 30 languages, and roughly 20 of these languages are still spoken today in the Amazon western regions of Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. Several scholars have refined the relations of the Panoan family and, according to Ribeiro (2006), from the mid-twentieth century, more systematic classifications and comparative studies expanded the knowledge about the historical development of the languages as well as the internal structure of the linguistic family. For example, preliminary internal classifications, based on linguistic criteria, were performed by Lanes (2005), Ribeiro (2006) and Fleck (2013).

The classification proposed by Lanes (2005) presents the Matis language along with the Matses language in the same branch, which is described by the author as the furthest group from other Panoan languages. The study presented by Ribeiro (2006) contains the classification of the Matis language in the group called IV-1, which is composed of the languages Matses, Kapishto and Kulina as well. The classification proposed by Fleck (2013) presents the Mayoruna branch that contains the languages Matis, Matses, Kulina, Demushbo, Korubo, Mayoruna of the Jandiatuba River, Mayoruna of the Amazon River and Mayoruna of Tabatinga.

The next session describes the materials and method procedures of the study, then the systemic description of the body-part morphemes. Firstly, I describe the inventory of 30 body-part prefixes along with the morphological forms and meanings; the interaction of prefixation and verbal reduplication; and the analysis of the syntactic tracking of the prefixes in switch-reference system.1 After that, it is presented the semantic extension from basic prefix meanings, and the pragmatic information related to the body-part morphemes. Finally, the study is complemented by the conclusion and the bibliographical references.

1.1. Materials and Method

Linguistic and anthropological knowledge about the Matis language and people, contacted in the mid-1970s, developed from the beginning of the 21st century, with the accomplishment of descriptive researches and some comparative accounts. For instance, anthropological and ethnographic aspects of Matis people were studied chiefly by Arisi (2007, 2011, 2012, 2017). Furthermore, grammatical aspects of the language were described by the linguists Ferreira R. (2001, 2005, 2012, 2017) and Ferreira V. (2000, 2005), and some comparative studies were done by Barbosa (2012, 2014, 2018).2

In the present paper, the analysis of the body-part morphemes in the Matis language is presented on the basis of primary data, with examples primarily coming from narratives collected and transcribed with native speakers, and also a few of them from the study of Ferreira R. (2005). With this in view, I describe the systemic functional aspects of the Matis body-part morphemes and propose the analysis of its lexicogrammatical system in order to find out semantic and pragmatic functions in clause-chaining constructions of narratives collected in fieldwork.

Body-part morphemes have been described in various languages of the Panoan family, both in the form of nouns and monosyllabic prefixes, with about 20 to 30 prefixes in each language. Studies already published thus far describe the inventory of these morphemes and its grammatical properties, as well as some discussion on the description as nominal incorporation or prefixation (Fleck 2006, Ribeiro & Cândido 2008, Zariquiey & Fleck 2012, Rodriguez 2017).

Regarding the synchronic status of the Matis body-part morphemes, I analyze the prefixes of this language as independent items, that is, these monosyllabic morphemes are not synchronic variations of the polysyllabic nominal items (as presented in Loos (1999) for other Panoan languages). In this sense, the lexis of the Matis language has two sets of morphemes that refer to body parts; monosyllabic morphemes, which in the form of prefixes are attached to lexical bases, and polysyllabic nouns, which are used with discursive purposes.

The morphological structure of the Matis language is characterized as synthetic-agglutinative, and therefore in the present analysis I consider the morpheme as the minimum unit. Thus, unlike the morpheme-and-process approach, I take the methodological procedure known as morpheme-and-arrangement, considering the descriptive principles presented by Aikhenvald (2007). Regarding the analysis of the systemic and communicative functions of the body-part morphemes, I follow the theoretical notions proposed by Lakoff & Johnson (1980), Krifka (2007), Halliday & Matthiessen (2014), and Matić et al. (2014).

2. Grammatical Description of Body Parts in Matis

The brief typological profile of the Matis grammar is as follows: the order of constituents in main clauses is flexible, with a tendency to S(ubject)O(bject)V(erb)/SV configuration, and verbs in subordinate clauses must come last. Word order in possessive constructions is quite rigid, which means possessors, marked in the genitive case, are always followed by possessees. The morphology is essentialy structured as agglutinative and synthetic, in which verbal roots receive postpositions, and also prefixes referring to body parts.

The grammatical relations of the Matis language are basically characterized by ergative-absolutive alignment. As with syntactic level, the morphology of nominal items and singular pronouns follows the ergative-absolutive pattern, with the exception of the first-person plural which follows the direct pattern, and the second-person plural, the nominative-acusative pattern. Adverbial items receive suffixes for participant agreement to the subject argument of the clause. Finally, the switch-reference system indicates the alternation and coreference of arguments, as well as logical-temporal relations and participant agreement between clauses.

The following subsections describe the body-part morphemes in the Matis language, according to the theoretical principles of the systemic functional grammar presented by Halliday & Matthiessen (2014). With this in view, it is presented the analysis about the interaction of the body-part system with other lexicogrammatical systems, like reduplication and switch-reference. In doing so, the description of the narrative data is presented as language functioning in context, and the textual resources, as an instantiation of the body-part system.

2.1. Morphological Form of Body-Part Morphemes

Body-part meanings in the Matis language are conveyed by monosyllabic prefixes, which are attached to colour adjectives and, especially, action verbs. In addition to these bound morphemes, the vocabulary of this language also has nominal morphemes, that besides conveying the same meaning of the prefixes, express specific parts of the body. The Table 1 presents the forms and meanings of the body-part prefixes and nouns (formed by two or more syllables—usually beginning with the same prefix form).

Table 1. Bound and Free Morphemes Relating to Body Parts in the Matis Language
Prefixes Nouns Meanings
an- ana tongue
ana ɾɨʂan/ɾɨʂβu tongue tip
βɨ- βɨmanan face, forehead
βɨmaɾi, βɨʂakete eyelash
βɨɾu eye
βɨɾu kaʂuku eyelid
βɨɾu kuiʂamawi eyebrow
in- ina penis, tail
ɨk- ɨkβik lip
ɨkʂak mouth
ka- kaʂpan upper back
kaʂuku back
kaʂuku wiʂpo lumbar (lower back)
kui- kuiʂak jaw
kuiʂakete beard
kuitonko chin
kuɨ- kuɨ vagina
kuɨ ɨkʂak vaginal lips
kuɨ tsitami perineum
ma- mapais horn
mapi brain
maʂatkete hair
maʂo head
maʂo kaʂuku/tsitsu back of head
mɨ- mɨkɨn hand
mɨkɨn ana palm
mɨkɨn kaʂuku dorsum of hand
mɨkɨn maʂopa thumb
mɨkɨn ɾɨʂan/ɾɨʂβu fingertip
mɨkɨn tɨtun wrist
mɨkɨn tɨtun kaʂuku dorsum of wrist
mɨntʂinβuɾuʂ elbow
mɨntsis fingernail, claw
mɨpuku anterior forearm region
mɨpuku kaʂuku posterior forearm region
mɨɾantakua anterior cubital region
mɨk- mɨkaʂ rib
nak- naktete waist
nik- niktʂun navel
pa- paβɨʂan ear
pɨ- pɨi wing, feather
pɨʂoɾo shoulder
pɨʂuku armpit
pɨtɨʂka upper arm, paw
po- poβik belly skin
popeʂ lateral part of the abdomen
pu- pui kini anus
puku belly
puku tʂɨɾɨk large intestine
puku tʂunu small intestine
puɾunte thigh
pusa stomach
ʂa- ʂaβet hip
ʂaeʂ groin
ʂik- ʂiktun, ʂiktoɾo thorax
ʂɨ- ʂɨta tooth
ʂu- ʂui penis
ʂui βikik clitoris
ʂui maβit foreskin
ʂui maʂo glans
ʂui ɾɨʂan urethra
ʂuma breast, nipple, milk
ɾa- ɾaɾa body
ɾan- ɾanβɨɾu knee
ɾantakua behind the knee
ɾɨ- ɾɨmuɾun nasal cavity
ɾɨʂan nose, beak, snout
ɾɨʂan kaʂuku nasal bridge
ɾɨʂan kini nostril
ta- taɨ foot
taɨ ana sole
taɨ kaʂuku dorsum of foot
taɨ maʂopa big toe
taɨ ɾɨʂan/ɾɨʂβu tiptoe
taɨ tɨtun ankle
taɨ tsituku heel
tantis toenail
tak- takua liver
tan- tanpeʂ cheek
tɨ- tɨβik neck skin
tɨos uvula
tɨʂpan neck base
tɨtun neck
tɨtun kaʂuku nape
tɨwiʂpo, tɨtun wiʂpo cervical spine
tsi- tsiβɨn leg
tsipuis rectum
tsitsu ass
u- ubu scrotum
ubu ɨʂɨ testicles
wi- wipuku lower part of the leg
wipuku tɨtun ankle
wipuku wiʂpo shin
wipuku wiʂuku calf
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In addition to the syllable structure ‘C(onsonant)V(owel)’ of most body-part prefixes in the Matis language, some of these bound morphemes also have the following syllable patterns: (V-), {u-} ‘testicles’; (VC-), {an-} ‘tongue’, {ɨk-} ‘lips/mouth’; and (CVC-), {tan-} ‘cheek’, {nik-} ‘belly button’. Having just one prefix slot in lexical bases, the basic function of prefixation in the Matis language is to indicate the participant’s body-part that receives the action or process conveyed by the verb. For example, the following clause has the transitive verb ɾemɨʂikak, which contains the prefix {ɾɨ-} ‘nose’, and whose body-part possessor corresponds to the absolutive argument, βakuɨ ‘child’.3

Just like some Panoan languages, such as Matses (Fleck 2006) and Kashibo-Kakataibo (Zariquiey & Fleck 2012), the Matis language lexis also has polysyllabic nominal morphemes, whose first syllable is generally similar to that of the prefixes. However, in both texts and elicited clauses collected in fieldwork, the polysyllabic nouns are less frequent than monosyllabic prefixes. The following example presents the prefix {pɨ-} ‘paw’, attached to the verb pɨbikeakɨtak, and also the corresponding noun pɨtɨʂka ‘paw’.

The possessor of the body part ‘paw’ corresponds to the referent ʂaɨ ‘anteater’ (bitten on the paw by the jaguar, according to the context of the narrative). In this example, the verb phrase pɨβikeakɨtak is composed of the prefix {pɨ-} ‘paw’, whereas the noun phrase pɨtɨʂka amɨɾapa contains the noun pɨtɨʂka ‘paw’. Moreover, while adjectives denoting quality, such as amɨɾapa ‘big’, are preceded by the polysyllabic noun, adjectives denoting colours, as shown in the following example, receive prefixes.

Thus, besides verbal prefixation, body-part prefixes are also attached to colour adjectives, that correspond, therefore, to nonverbal predicates. To summarize, synthetic constructions are characterized by monosyllabic prefixes, which are attached to action verbs (forming verbal predication) and also to colour adjectives (nonverbal predication). By contrast, analytical constructions are characterized by polysyllabic nominal morphemes, accompanied by adjectival items denoting quality.

2.2. Prefixation and Verbal Reduplication

Reduplication is a worldwide phenomena, with a variety of functional and derivational cross-linguistic tendencies (Rubino 2005, Tak 2007). In the Matis language, reduplication conveys grammatical functions of intensity or totality, processing from the left of the base, with the root reduplicant in the initial position. In addition to this type of root reduplication, the grammar of this language also processes verbal stem reduplication, together with prefixes referring to body parts. In the following clause, for example, it is presented complex stem reduplication (pɨmos~pɨ-mos), and the simple root reduplication (nokos~nokos).

This example presents the verbal root mos ‘bite’ to which the prefix {pɨ-} ‘paw’ is attached, resulting in the base stem pɨmos ‘bite the paw’. Then the stem is reduplicated to the left of the base, pɨmospɨmos ‘bit it at the whole paws’, to express the totality meaning conveyed by the verb, which affects the possessor of the body part. In other words, this verbal item means that the bite (of the jaguar) affected both paws of the anteater, as the verbal root is reduplicated along with the prefix referring to that body part.

Moreover, in this example, the noun phrase nokosnokos ‘roar hard’ has the onomatopoeic form nokos, which is, in the Matis language, usually reduplicated to indicate intensity. In this language, in addition to the intensity meaning conveyed by nominal reduplications, verbal roots are also reduplicated in order to express intensity and/or totality, such as kuankuane ‘all quickly go away’ and nanane ‘all really die’. Therefore, depending on the context related to the meaning of the full stem reduplication of action verbs, intensity and/or totality functions can be applied to the body-part prefix attached to the verb root.

2.3. Syntactic Tracking of Body-Part Reference

The basic position of the body-part possessor in the Matis prefixation constructions is immediately to the left of the verb. In spite of this syntactic position, in the complex clauses from narratives, the possessor noun phrase, which is in absolutive function, might not be necessarily placed immediately to the left of the verb. As presented in the following clause, the relation of the possessor argument kamunɾapa ‘jaguar’ to the prefix {βɨ-} ‘face’ is established by means of the participant agreement of the Matis switch-reference system.

The switch-reference marker {=kin}, attached to the verb stem tʂokin ‘came’, conveys the coreferentiality function of the subject kamunɾapa ‘jaguar’ to the following transitive clause subject. In this clause, the verb stem kapeʂo ‘trying’, which receives the switch-reference marker {=ʂo}, indicates that the referent of this subject is the same of the direct object of the next clause. That is to say, the referent kamunɾapa ‘jaguar’ is retrieved as a null absolutive argument of the verb stem βɨsananpak ‘to aim at the face’, owing to the interaction of body-part morphemes with the switch-reference system. The following example presents the clause-chaining relation of the possessor ʂaɨɾapa ‘anteater’ with its body part {pɨ-} ‘paw’.

In this example, the switch-reference marker {=ek} which indicate the participant agreement function on a simultaneous verbal event, establish the relation of the participant ʂaɨɾapa ‘anteater’ as the possessor of the body part {pɨ-} ‘paw’. In this clause complex, every verb that receives the marker {=ek} retrieves the absolutive argument ʂaɨɾapa ‘anteater’ up to the body-part predicate pɨβikeakɨtak ‘turned the paw’. To sum up, analyses of narratives indicate that the relation of body part and its possessor, in clause-chaining construction, is established on referential progression by means of the participant agreement in switch-reference system.

Despite applicative-like function of body-part terms in Matses (Fleck 2006), with the addition of an extra absolutive participant, it is not the case for the Matis language since it lacks clear grammatical evidence for body-part applicative voice. Moreover, as the Matis language is basically an ergative-absolutive language, the possessor noun-phrase is generally the absolutive argument. However, in clauses whose subject or direct object corresponds to second-person plural pronoun, which exclusively follows the nominative-accusative pattern, the possessor noun phrase is in accusative or nominative case.

3. Semantic and Discursive Context of Body Parts in Matis

The description of the examples from narratives is based on contextual analysis of the meaningful lexical choices made by the narrator. In this sense, following the principles of systemic functional grammar proposed by Halliday & Matthiessen (2014), the semantic and pragmatic level of analysis about the discursive usage of body-part morphemes demonstrates the coding of experience and interpersonal relationships into linguistic meaning.

3.1. Semantic Extension from Basic Body-Part Meanings

Verbal prefixes of the Matis language are also used to convey abstract locative meanings. In this type of construction, the spatial meanings are based on the semantic extension of the basic meanings expressed by the monosyllabic body-part prefixes. As an illustration of the body-part prefixes abstraction, Table 2 presents a set of these prefixes, the basic meanings and its semantic extensions.

Table 2. Semantic Extension of Body-Parts Prefixes in the Matis Language
Prefixes Basic Meanings Spatial Meanings
an- tongue internal part
ɾa- body external part
ɾɨ- nose front part
ka- back back part
ma- head upper part
ta- foot lower part
pa- ear lateral part
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The extended meanings of these body-part prefixes, which convey metaphorical spatial notions, are related to inanimate possessors. This semantic process distinguishes the reference value of the spatial meanings in comparison to the basic meanings, that are related to animated possessors. That is, the literal meanings, referring to body parts of human and nonhuman animals, are semantically extended in order to express parts of objects and plants. The following clauses with the metaphorical meaning of the body-part prefixes {an-} ‘tongue’ and {ɾa-} ‘body’ are examples of this type of process.

Metaphorical meaning, unlike literal references of body-part prefixes, refer to abstract spatial relationships, whose possessors correspond to inanimate referents (parts of objects, tawa ‘arrow’; and entities of nature, wiβɨn ‘root.external’, for example). Thus, in verbal constructions involving prefixation, if the complement (possessor) of the verb is inanimate, the meaning of these prefixes conveys abstract spatial relations, as illustrated in the following example with the body-part prefix {ta-} ‘foot’.

In addition to the concrete meanings of the Matis body-part prefixes, the semantic level of this language can process abstract extensions from the basic references of these items. Thus, I propose that besides the functional value of the inanimate reference of the possessor, the metaphorical conceptual system, according to the principles of metaphorical representation in Lakoff & Johnson (1980), is the cognitive condition for the semantic processing of extension and expression of wider spatial references from basic meanings.

3.2. Pragmatic Information of Body-Part Morphemes

In the Matis language, verb stems, to which body-part prefixes are attached, may be preceded by the noun of the corresponding body part, whose form of the first syllable is usually the same of the prefix. Such a construction that indicates the emphatic function of the body-part noun is illustrated in the following example, in which the verb stem ɾɨmɨɾaktʂakan, bearing the body-part prefix {ɾɨ-} ‘snout’, is preceded by the body-part noun itemɨxan ‘snout’.4

In this example, the co-occurrence of body-part morphemes, with the polysyllabic body-part noun ɾɨʂan, followed by the prefixed verb stem ɾɨmɨɾaktʂakan ‘pointing quickly near the snout’, indicates the prominence of the information related to the body part ‘snout’. According to the basic notions of information structure (Krifka 2007), the emphatic interpretation given to the polysyllabic body-part noun represents unexpected information in the narrative discourse, which express the focus function of this reference.

Polysyllabic body-part nouns may also precede prefixed verbs if the speaker intends to focus the body-part reference in relation to the meaning of the prefix. For example, the verbal construction mɨwisuwaek means ‘smearing the hand and/or the forearm’, since the meaning of the prefix {mɨ-} corresponds to both of the body parts (see Table 1). Thus, considering the specification of only one of these body-part references, either mɨkɨn mɨwisuwaek ‘smearing the hand’ or mɨpuku mɨwisuwaek ‘smearing the forearm’ verbal construction can be used respectively. In addition to focus, the following clause shows that body-part terms can also be used as topic.

In the Matis language, “there are variations [in word order] that are conditioned by pragmatic reasons, [so] when the object moves to the beginning of the clause, there is a topicalization”.5 (Ferreira, R. 2005). Hence, in the previous example, the (anteater) reported speech has the polysyllabic noun pɨtɨxka ‘paw’ at the beginning of the clause, which characterizes it as a topic, considering that this body part corresponds to “[...] the common knowledge [that] will be enriched by a new proposition” (Matić et al. 2014).

The present functional description about body-part morphemes in the Matis language is part of a wider research project of narrative study about the functional interaction of reference mechanisms and transitivity systems. This project also aims to describe the semantic and pragmatic conditions for those systems, and future studies have to be done about the discourse topic based on cognitive-pragmatic approach (van Dijk 1977, Chang 2007). In doing so, the results of these researches will provide a deeper knowledge about the systematic relation of transitivity systems in the Matis language with text and context, that can be used for didactic education and cultural documentation purposes.

4. Conclusion

Body-part morphemes in the Matis language are structured in synthetic constructions as monosyllabic prefixes and, less frequently, in analytical constructions as polysyllabic nominal items. As polysyllabic morphemes, these items are adjacent to adjectives of quality. Moreover, prefixed verb stems can be preceded by similar body-part noun to perform focus function, and polysyllabic nouns can also express topic function if structured at the beginning of the clause.

The body-part prefixes are attached to action verbs to construct verbal predications, and also to colour adjectives to construct nonverbal predications. On verb stems, the basic meaning of body parts, that is related to animate possessors, is extended to more generalized spatial meanings related to inanimate possessors. Additionally, verbal reduplication processes involving body-part prefixes include the meaning of the prefix attached to the verb. In clause-chaining constructions, the relation of body part and its possessor is established on referential progression by means of the participant agreement in switch-reference system.

Since the prefixation of body-part items is likely a process of every Panoan languages, references to inanimate possessors, and the meaning extensions of some of these prefixes, as well as its pragmatic usage as topic and focus, may be properties of all or most languages of the linguistic family. To conclude, both synchronic (communicative functions) and diachronic (historical developments) aspects of body-part morphemes in narratives and other textual sources indicate the descriptive and typological relevance of this theme in the Matis language, as well as in the Panoan family.

Notes

§ I would like to thank Dejan Matić, for his valuable guidance and support in an earlier version of this article; Bushe Matis, for his helpful assistance on the body-part terms; the two anonymous reviewers from the Journal of Universal Language (JUL); and the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) for the research grant 2019/09686-9. All the remaining mistakes in the proposed analysis are my responsibility.

The opposing exclusive pair of encoding pattern glossed as ID ‘identity’ and NONID ‘non-identity’ is used throughout this paper, since this terminology capture the multi-layered connections of this phenomenon, in contrast to the traditional terms ‘same subject’ and ‘different subject’ (van Gijn 2016).

Matis grammatical systems are currently been described, such as morphosyntactic alignment (Barbosa 2020), switch-reference (Barbosa n.d.a), and also a study on the consonantal system (Barbosa et al. n.d.b.).

The following category label abbreviations, mostly based on the Leipzig Glossing Rules, are used throughout this paper: 1, first person; 2, second person; 4, fourth person; A, agente-like argument of canonical transitive verb; ABS, absolutive; AG, agent; AGR, agreement; ANT, anterior; DECL, declarative; DES, desiderative; EMP, emphatic; ERG, ergative; FOC, focus; ID, identity; INC, inconclusive; INTR, intransitive; INV, involuntary; INTS, intensity; LOC, locative; NID, non-identity; NMLZ, nominalizer; O, patient-like argument of canonical transitive verb; PST, past; REC, recent; S, single-argument of canonical intransitive verb; SG, singular; SIM, simultaneous; TOT, totality; TR, transitive; >, switch-reference (marked clause > reference clause).

In this example from a narrative, the possessor of the body part ‘snout’ is the referent ʂ ‘anteater’ (indicated in the translation between parentheses), that was introduced earlier in the narrative.

On original: “Existem variações que estão condicionadas por razões pragmáticas, quando o objeto se move para o início da sentença, há uma topicalização”.

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