Notions of spatial expression in the Arawak languages spoken in the Northwest Amazon: the case of locatives adpositions ; Nociones de expresión espacial en las lenguas Aruák habladas en el Noroeste Amazónico: el caso de las adposiciones locativas ; Noções de expressão espaciais nas línguas Aruák faladas no Noroeste Amazônico: o caso das adposições locativas

This paper analyzes the spatial adpositions in three Aruák languages (Baniwa, Tariana and Warekena) spoken in the northwest Amazon, more specifically in the city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, in the state of Amazonas (Brazil). In this work, the analysis of the semantic representation of space is based on the semantic typology and grammar of space. The semantic representation of motion events is divided into two semantic domains: the static location expression, which refers to an event that does not involve background motion, and the dynamic one that involves motion. These two types are analyzed in this study, based on data collected in previous academic works on the three investigated languages. As a result, we found that static adpositions are predominantly more recurrent, totaling 32 types while dynamic spatial adpositions occur in only 5 cases. In addition, we also verified adpositions that have a more morphosyntactic function, occurring in total in 11 cases, the most common types are the comitative and instrumental and the beneficent. The adpositions analyzed in this study do not regularly exhibit cognates, occurring only in three cases. In short, this paper is just a preliminary investigation of the analysis of space grammar in three Arawak languages, with the aim of being a first step towards a more comprehensive study on this topic in the languages of the Arawak family. ; El tema de este artículo es el análisis de las adposiciones espaciales en tres lenguas aruák (baniwa, tariana y warekena) habladas en el noroeste amazónico, más específicamente en el municipio de São Gabriel da Cachoeira, en el estado de Amazonas (Brasil). En este trabajo, el análisis de la representación semántica del espacio se basa en la tipología semántica y la gramática del espacio. La representación semántica de eventos de movimiento se divide en dos dominios semánticos: la expresión de ubicación estática, que se refiere a un evento que no involucra movimiento de fondo, y la dinámica que involucra movimiento. Estos dos tipos se ...