Lima
Biographic Data
| ID | 67411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lima |
| FAMILY NAME | Lima |
| SIGNATURE | LIMA |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5510-7337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pluractionality of Events in Macuxi
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 …
Bare singulars and relative measures in Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese has received much attention in the typology of noun phrases for being a language with a fully-fledged determiner system that also allows generalized bare singular nominals. This paper investigates the use of bare singulars in relative measure constructions, such as um terço de mulher (literally, ‘one third of woman’). We show that Ahn & Sauerland’s (2015, 2017) and Pasternak & Sauerland’s (2020) analysis of relative measure c…
Experimental Portuguese Linguistics
Complex structures in Brazilian Indigenous languages
Quantity evaluations in Yudja
A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories
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 distinction in 15 Brazilian Indigenous languages, based on a questionnaire we prepared in 2016 in order to explore the distribution of bare nouns, plurals, numera…
Count and mass nouns in Patxohã
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 combined with size adjectives. As for quantifiers, we observe that at least one quantifier in the language (nitxi) can be combined with count and mass n…
Manutenção e revitalização linguística no Canadá
Ao menos setenta línguas indígenas são faladas no Canadá. Estudos indicam que a maioria das línguas indígenas canadenses é avaliada como em perigo, principalmente, por conta da baixa transmissão destas línguas como primeira língua. Contudo, ao passo que os dados dos censos canadenses mostram o declínio na transmissão de línguas indígenas como primeira língua, estudos sugerem um aumento consistente de aprendizes de línguas indígenas como segunda l…
New perspectives on the count-mass distinction
Much work has explored the semantics of count and mass nouns from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. In this paper, we explore some of the recent advances in this field, drawing particularly from descriptions of understudied languages and experimental research. We will focus on two dimensions of the count/mass debate. First, we will explore the debate about what can be counted grammatically, that is, how we define atoms and what role…
Introdução
Introdução à Revista Linguí∫tica 14(2
On the acquisition of distributivity in Yudja
This paper explores the acquisition of distributivity in Yudja (Tupi, Brazil) based on a study with children and adults. In this paper, we explore experimentally the hypothesis discussed in previous work (LIMA, 2008) that verbal reduplication is a pluractional marker (LASERSOHN, 2005) that also conveys distributivity. Two preference tasks were performed with 11 adults and 17 children. Adults' results show that the interpretation of ambiguous sent…
Container Constructions in Yudja
The possible interpretations of container phrases (such as ‘cups of sugar’) has been long debated in the formal semantics literature because container phrases can be associated with a variety of possible readings that go from individuation to measure. In this paper we explore the interpretation of container phrases in Yudja (Tupi stock, Brazil), a language where container phrases are optional in construction with numerals and are morphosyntactica…
The interpretation of Brazilian Portuguese bare singulars in neutral contexts
The interpretation of Bare Singular count nouns (henceforth BS nouns) has been at the center of much debate in the literature on countability in Brazilian Portuguese. In this paper, we ad- dress the question whether BS nouns may only be interpreted as mass nouns or as names of kinds, or whether they may also be interpreted as object denoting nouns. It is generally agreed that BS nouns can be interpreted as names of kinds. Furthermore, Beviláqua a…
A estrutura argumental dos verbos na língua Juruna (Yudjá)
Esta dissertação descreve e analisa os verbos da língua Juruna (Yudja) a partir de suas estruturas argumentais e conseqüências sintáticas.O objetivo é contribuir com um material para a escola indígena Juruna assim como contribuir com os estudos teóricos da perspectiva gerativista de estudos sobre a linguagem.O texto é dividido em duas grandes partes (descrição e análise) sendo a primeira delas uma descrição de 302 verbos da língua.Nesta parte div…
A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories
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 distinction in 15 Brazilian Indigenous languages, based on a questionnaire we prepared in 2016 in order to explore the distribution of bare nouns, plurals, numera…
New perspectives on the count-mass distinction
Much work has explored the semantics of count and mass nouns from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. In this paper, we explore some of the recent advances in this field, drawing particularly from descriptions of understudied languages and experimental research. We will focus on two dimensions of the count/mass debate. First, we will explore the debate about what can be counted grammatically, that is, how we define atoms and what role…
Quantity evaluations in Yudja
Container Constructions in Yudja
The possible interpretations of container phrases (such as ‘cups of sugar’) has been long debated in the formal semantics literature because container phrases can be associated with a variety of possible readings that go from individuation to measure. In this paper we explore the interpretation of container phrases in Yudja (Tupi stock, Brazil), a language where container phrases are optional in construction with numerals and are morphosyntactica…
The interpretation of Brazilian Portuguese bare singulars in neutral contexts
The interpretation of Bare Singular count nouns (henceforth BS nouns) has been at the center of much debate in the literature on countability in Brazilian Portuguese. In this paper, we ad- dress the question whether BS nouns may only be interpreted as mass nouns or as names of kinds, or whether they may also be interpreted as object denoting nouns. It is generally agreed that BS nouns can be interpreted as names of kinds. Furthermore, Beviláqua a…
On the acquisition of distributivity in Yudja
This paper explores the acquisition of distributivity in Yudja (Tupi, Brazil) based on a study with children and adults. In this paper, we explore experimentally the hypothesis discussed in previous work (LIMA, 2008) that verbal reduplication is a pluractional marker (LASERSOHN, 2005) that also conveys distributivity. Two preference tasks were performed with 11 adults and 17 children. Adults' results show that the interpretation of ambiguous sent…
A estrutura argumental dos verbos na língua Juruna (Yudjá)
Esta dissertação descreve e analisa os verbos da língua Juruna (Yudja) a partir de suas estruturas argumentais e conseqüências sintáticas.O objetivo é contribuir com um material para a escola indígena Juruna assim como contribuir com os estudos teóricos da perspectiva gerativista de estudos sobre a linguagem.O texto é dividido em duas grandes partes (descrição e análise) sendo a primeira delas uma descrição de 302 verbos da língua.Nesta parte div…
Container Constructions in Yudja
The possible interpretations of container phrases (such as ‘cups of sugar’) has been long debated in the formal semantics literature because container phrases can be associated with a variety of possible readings that go from individuation to measure. In this paper we explore the interpretation of container phrases in Yudja (Tupi stock, Brazil), a language where container phrases are optional in construction with numerals and are morphosyntactica…
The interpretation of Brazilian Portuguese bare singulars in neutral contexts
The interpretation of Bare Singular count nouns (henceforth BS nouns) has been at the center of much debate in the literature on countability in Brazilian Portuguese. In this paper, we ad- dress the question whether BS nouns may only be interpreted as mass nouns or as names of kinds, or whether they may also be interpreted as object denoting nouns. It is generally agreed that BS nouns can be interpreted as names of kinds. Furthermore, Beviláqua a…
On the acquisition of distributivity in Yudja
This paper explores the acquisition of distributivity in Yudja (Tupi, Brazil) based on a study with children and adults. In this paper, we explore experimentally the hypothesis discussed in previous work (LIMA, 2008) that verbal reduplication is a pluractional marker (LASERSOHN, 2005) that also conveys distributivity. Two preference tasks were performed with 11 adults and 17 children. Adults' results show that the interpretation of ambiguous sent…
New perspectives on the count-mass distinction
Much work has explored the semantics of count and mass nouns from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. In this paper, we explore some of the recent advances in this field, drawing particularly from descriptions of understudied languages and experimental research. We will focus on two dimensions of the count/mass debate. First, we will explore the debate about what can be counted grammatically, that is, how we define atoms and what role…
Introdução
Introdução à Revista Linguí∫tica 14(2
Quantity evaluations in Yudja
A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories
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 distinction in 15 Brazilian Indigenous languages, based on a questionnaire we prepared in 2016 in order to explore the distribution of bare nouns, plurals, numera…
Count and mass nouns in Patxohã
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 combined with size adjectives. As for quantifiers, we observe that at least one quantifier in the language (nitxi) can be combined with count and mass n…
Manutenção e revitalização linguística no Canadá
Ao menos setenta línguas indígenas são faladas no Canadá. Estudos indicam que a maioria das línguas indígenas canadenses é avaliada como em perigo, principalmente, por conta da baixa transmissão destas línguas como primeira língua. Contudo, ao passo que os dados dos censos canadenses mostram o declínio na transmissão de línguas indígenas como primeira língua, estudos sugerem um aumento consistente de aprendizes de línguas indígenas como segunda l…
Complex structures in Brazilian Indigenous languages
Bare singulars and relative measures in Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese has received much attention in the typology of noun phrases for being a language with a fully-fledged determiner system that also allows generalized bare singular nominals. This paper investigates the use of bare singulars in relative measure constructions, such as um terço de mulher (literally, ‘one third of woman’). We show that Ahn & Sauerland’s (2015, 2017) and Pasternak & Sauerland’s (2020) analysis of relative measure c…
Experimental Portuguese Linguistics
Pluractionality of Events in Macuxi
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 …
Philosophy (11 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Noun (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Language and cultural evolution (3 works) · Language Development and Disorders (3 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 works) · Numeral system (3 works)