As classes lexicais da língua Mebêngôkre

Abstract

The work brings a description of the lexical classes in the language, including some cultural aspects of the people who speak it. Mebêngôkre belongs to the linguistic family jê (RODRIGUES, 1986), and is spoken in some municipalities in the state of Pará and Mato Grosso, 5,000 individuals. In this language we identify two classes, both lexical and functional. In the lexical class names, verbs, adjective, adverb, postposition and functional class, temporal marker, aspectual, and modal, pronouns, demonstratives, interrogatives, complementizador, auxiliary verbs and syntagmas. This dissertation was constructed in the light of approaches OLIVEIRA (2003), SALANOVA (2001), COSTA (2015), REIS SILVA (2001), BORGES (1995), MICKEY & THOMSON (1976). The data that supported this work were registered with informers of the community, and the observation that I have made of the use of this language during ten years acting as a teacher.