Noun classification and ethnozoological classification in Machiguenga (Shepard Jr. 1997)

Autor:	Shepard Jr., Glenn
Data:	1997
Título:	Noun classification and ethnozoological classification in Machiguenga, an Arawakan language of the Peruvian Amazon
Detalhes:	Journal of Amazonian Languages vol. 1, p. 29-57

Itens afins

• Povos e lendas da Amazônia peruana (Anônimo 1977)
• "The Amazon" + "Amazon : The river sea" (McIntyre 1972)

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A system of noun classification (numeral classification) is described in the Machiguenga language as spoken on the upper Manu river, Southern Peru. Since the same numeral classifier may occur with both the animate and the inanimate affix for many numerals, there exist animate and inanimate forms for many numeral classifiers. Animate forms refer mostly to groups of animals, while inanimate forms refer mostly to plants and plant parts. Numeral classifiers for animals create an analogy between some distinctive aspect of the animal's form and some inanimate object: the classifier for 'small animals' (mice, small birds, flies) is the animate form of the classifier for 'seeds and other small, round, numerous objects'; the classifier for 'monkeys with no prehensile tails' (tamarins, squirrel monkeys, etc.) is the animate form of the classifier for 'vines, strings and veins'. The relationship between the cognitive processes of noun classification and ethnobiological classification is explored.

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