Definitude e a genericidade em Rikbaktsa (Macro-Jê)

The paper investigates the expression of definiteness and genericity in Rikbaktsa (Macro-J).The data was selected from the literature (SIL, 2007;Silva, 2011, Dellai et al., 2021) and collected through interviews with two native speakers, following Dayal's questionnaire (in press).The analysis shows: (i) Rikbaktsa has no articles; the demonstrative carries an anti-uniqueness presupposition, thus, it is not a definite article, and tuba 'one' is the cardinal 1, (ii) the bare phrases, with and without plural morphology, allow definite and indefinite readings; (iii) the bare singularis mandatory in a situation where there is only one individual, but can convey plurality and genericity; (iv) the bare plural conveys plurality and genericity; it is mandatory with the predicate of extinction.The bare plural denotes a set of pluralities which can be shifted to the kind, whereas the bare singular does not carry information about number; singularity is an implicature

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