A reduplicação verbal em xichangana

Abstract

The present work aims to present a descriptive study of Verbal Reduplication in Xichangana. To achieve this objective, the work is organized into five chapters, namely: Chapter I provides the elements that allow a general framework for the study we carried out. In this, we will present the motivation that led us to carry out this study, as well as its contribution to linguistics. We will also present our object of study as well as its objectives. Chapter II discusses the basic concepts that will support our study, with an emphasis on the notions of verbal theme and reduplication from the perspective of different authors. From the morphological structure and its semantics, the different processes of word formation associated with reduplication and its impact on meanings are discussed. Chapter III presents, in addition to the three methodologies adopted in the course of the work, namely: the philological method, the introspection method and the interview method, the constitution of the corpus and the procedures used in data testing. In chapter IV, verbal reduplication in Xichangana is analyzed from the morphological and semantic points of view. This analysis is made taking into account the morphological structure of the verbal stems (-C-, -CVC-, -CVCVC -) or longer. Finally, Chapter V presents the conclusions and recommendations. The first are a kind of “thread” that joins the points raised in the development of the work. The second ones are our point of view regarding the global contribution of the present study as well as the points that can be considered deserving of more depth in future work