Isabella Coutinho Costa
Biographic Data
| ID | 3844798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isabella Coutinho Costa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isabella Coutinho |
| FAMILY NAME | Costa |
| SIGNATURE | COSTA I C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Pluractionality of Events in Macuxi: A Morpho-Syntactic and Semantic Analysis
This paper discusses how pluractionality is expressed in Macuxi (Cariban), a South American Indigenous language spoken in Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela. Cross-linguistically, the multiplicity of an action can be expressed by means of specialized pluractional morphemes affixed on verbs, via adverbs, or by reduplication. Previous work on Macuxi claimed that the iterative suffix -pîtî indicates a multiplicity of actions, whereas verbal reduplication …
The count/mass distinction in Ye'kwana
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 be pluralized. However, numerals need a container phrase in order to be directly combined with mass nouns. Nominal quantifierswannaandoojecan be directly …
The count/mass distinction in Taurepang
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 pluralized. Despite nominal quantifiers have the same distribution, they show different interpretation with count and mass nouns. As the data also shows th…
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The count/mass distinction in Ye'kwana
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 be pluralized. However, numerals need a container phrase in order to be directly combined with mass nouns. Nominal quantifierswannaandoojecan be directly …
The count/mass distinction in Taurepang
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 pluralized. Despite nominal quantifiers have the same distribution, they show different interpretation with count and mass nouns. As the data also shows th…
Pluractionality of Events in Macuxi: A Morpho-Syntactic and Semantic Analysis
This paper discusses how pluractionality is expressed in Macuxi (Cariban), a South American Indigenous language spoken in Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela. Cross-linguistically, the multiplicity of an action can be expressed by means of specialized pluractional morphemes affixed on verbs, via adverbs, or by reduplication. Previous work on Macuxi claimed that the iterative suffix -pîtî indicates a multiplicity of actions, whereas verbal reduplication …
Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Noun (2 works) · Noun phrase (2 works)