The count/mass distinction in Taurepang
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4567722 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Iná Camargo Costa (0000-0002-2586-8928, Universidade Estadual de Roraima, corresponding author), Isabella Coutinho Costa |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 352-365 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistic Variation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2211-6834 • E-ISSN: 2211-6842 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/lv.00026.cou |
| OpenAlex | W3090100983 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
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 that numerals distinguish count and mass nouns and that container phrases trigger the count/measure interpretation, we assume here that the denotation of mass nouns in Taurepang cannot be count
Count data · Data mining · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Noun · Noun phrase · Numeral system · Proper noun · Statistics · Computer Science · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |