Racquel-María Sapién
List of John Benjamins publications for which Racquel-María Sapién plays a role.
Articles
2021 Chapter 3. Antipassive in the Cariban family Antipassive: 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
2018 Chapter 4. Nonverbal predication in Kari’nja (Cariban, Suriname) Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages, Overall, Simon E., Rosa Vallejos and Spike Gildea (eds.), pp. 103–134 | Chapter
This paper describes the forms and functions of nonverbal predication in Kari’nja (Cariban, Suriname). Previous descriptions of nonverbal predication in Kari’nja are limited to a single copular form, and make only passing mention of a subset of functions. Kari’nja employs the copula, as well as… read more