Nominalization in Languages of the Americas

This paper focuses on nominalizations within Tupí-Guaraní, a sub-group of the Tupí linguistic family. For this purpose, we first analyze two very conservative Tupí-Guaraní languages, Tupinambá and Apyãwa (Tapirapé), and then compare them with a very innovative Tupí-Guaraní language, Nheengatú (língua geral). By doing so, we show that the nominalizers are correlated to more general typological properties of the sub-group, such as the omnipredicative pattern. More specifically, we address the historical development of these languages showing that the loss of omnipredicative properties led to the restructuration of the forms and the functions of nominalization.

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