Morfemas derivacionais Xerente (Jê)

Sumario: This article deals with derivational processes of the Xerente language (Jê family). We show that, in this language, derivational morphemes are of different natures, some of them form new lexemes of the same base class, others form lexemes of a different base class. Among the derivational morphemes found in Xerente there are those that are combinable with (a) nominal, verbal and adverbial themes, (b) nominal themes, (c) verbal themes, and (d) nominalized verbal themes. The present description considered previous studies on derivational processes in other Jê languages (Costa 2013; Miranda 2010, 2014; Cotrim 2016) and was referenced in Aikhenvald (2015) regarding the functional nature of derivational processes found in grammars of different languages, as well as in Rodrigues (1953; 1981), and in Rodrigues and Cabral (2012) on nominalizations in Tupí languages.