Number morphology in Panará

Bernat Bardagil | University of California, Berkeley

In this paper I present a description of number in Panará, with singular, dual and plural, and discuss the mass-count properties of Panará nouns. I also describe an until now unattested instance of omnivorous dual in Panará, where one dual morpheme can map to one or more arguments.

Keywords: number, countability, numerals, omnivorous number, Jê languages

Published online: 01 October 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.00023.bar

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