Sérgio Meira

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sérgio Meira plays a role.

Articles

Sapién, Racquel-María, Natalia Cáceres Arandia, Spike Gildea and Sérgio Meira 2021 Chapter 3. Antipassive in the Cariban familyAntipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions, Janic, Katarzyna and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.), pp. 65–96 | Chapter
To date, no published reference grammar of a Cariban language has described an antipassive construction. However, all languages of the family have a cognate verbal morpheme, termed detransitivizer, which prefixes to a transitive verb to derive an intransitive verb. While monovalent, the… read more
Meira, Sérgio and Elsa Gomez-Imbert 2005 Review of Aikhenvald (2002): Language contact in AmazoniaStudies in Language 29:1, pp. 168–179 | Review