A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories
Edited by Suzi Lima and Susan Rothstein
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 20:2 (2020) vi, 247 pp.
Suzi Lima
List of John Benjamins publications for which Suzi Lima plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Typology
Articles
2022 Chapter 11. Value and cardinality in the evaluation of bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics: Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018, Alboiu, Gabriela and Ruth King (eds.), pp. 193–206 | Chapter
Previous studies have explored two semantic features – cardinality and volume – to shown that bare singulars such as banana in Eu comi banana (I ate banana) allows a count and a mass interpretation in Brazilian Portuguese. In this chapter we explore whether other features such as value impact… read more
2020 Count and mass nouns in Patxohã A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories, Lima, Suzi and Susan Rothstein (eds.), pp. 324–335 | Article
This paper describes the count/mass distinction in Patxohã, a revitalized language spoken in Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil. We observe that only count nouns can be directly combined with numerals and that only count nouns can co-occur with plural determiners. Furthermore, only count nouns can be… read more
2020 A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories, Lima, Suzi and Susan Rothstein (eds.), pp. 174–218 | Article
While much work has been done on the description of the mass/count distinction in different geographical areas, Brazilian Indigenous languages are still highly underrepresented in the field. This paper presents the results of a project that involved researchers describing the mass/count… read more