Isabella Coutinho Costa

List of John Benjamins publications for which Isabella Coutinho Costa plays a role.

Articles

Coutinho Costa, Isabella 2020 The count/mass distinction in Ye’kwana A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories, Lima, Suzi and Susan Rothstein (eds.), pp. 409–419 | Article

This paper presents a description of the count/mass distinction in Ye’kwana, a Cariban language spoken in Brazil and Venezuela. The methodology used was based on Lima & Rothstein’s questionnaire this volume). The data shows that Ye’kwana is a bare noun language and that mass and count nouns can… read more

Coutinho Costa, Isabella 2020 The count/mass distinction in Taurepang A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories, Lima, Suzi and Susan Rothstein (eds.), pp. 352–365 | Article

This paper presents a description of the count/mass distinction in Taurepang, a Cariban language spoken in Brazil and Venezuela. The methodology used was based on Lima & Rothstein’s questionnaire (this volume). We show that Taurepang is a bare noun language and that mass and count nouns can be… read more