<b>Notes on causativization in Parkatêjê language (Timbira)

Abstract

 The objective of this paper is to describe and analyze morphosyntactic and semantic aspects related to the phenomenon of causativization in Parkatêjê (Indigenous language of the Jê family, Macro-Jê stock, and grouped in the Timbira dialect complex). This research is based on funcionalist theory, and developed according to the following steps: i) survey, reading and analysis of bibliographic materials; ii) fieldwork for collecting of data carried out in the Parkatêjê Indigenous Community; iii) transcription, organization and analysis of the data. The causativization is a process related to the change of functions and grammatical relations of the arguments of a verb. Semantically, it is a phenomenon associated with the relation of cause and effect, in which a causative verb allows the subject of a sentence to act on another argument. In the Parkatêjê language, causativization is manifested through the verb to, whose primary meaning is 'to do' and which affects active and stative intransitive verbs. The work is based on the theoretical postulates of Givón (1975), Shibatani (1976, 2002), Comrie (1989), Shibatani and Pardeshi (2002), Dixon (1994), among others. This study presents an original contribution to the description of Parkatêjê language.