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MORI, Ángel Corbera. TERMS OF HUMAN BODY PARTS IN MEHINAKU (ARAWAK). Lingüística [online]. 2017, vol.33, n.2, pp.55-68. ISSN 2079-312X.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2079-312x.20170017.

The human body is a hierarchical system constituted of corporal partonomy, defined by basic and universal traits of the human conception, characterized by a hierarchical set of relations, of type "X is part of". For example, the nails are parts of the fingers, the fingers are parts of the hand (Andersen 1978). Already in taxonomic classifications, the elements of a category are conceptualized as "X is a type of", for example, the rose is a type of flower, trout is a type of river fish (McClure 1975). Considering these two types of classification, a brief description of the partonomy in Mehinaku language (Arawak) is presented. The terms of parts of the body are approached considering the morphological structure of this language and its occurrence in constructions of nominal possession. The linguistic data presented in this text are the result of fieldworks conducted in villages of the Mehinaku people

Palabras clave : Amerindian languages; Arawak language family; Mehinaku language. Languages of the Upper Xingú.

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