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A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories
Edited by Suzi Lima and Susan Rothstein
[Linguistic Variation 20:2] 2020
► pp. 312–323

Number morphology in Panará

| 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
Article outline
  • 1.Panará number
  • 2.Omnivorous dual
  • 3.Panará numerals
  • 4.Countability
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • Abbreviations
  • References
Published online: 01 October 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.00023.bar
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