Andrés Pablo Salanova
List of John Benjamins publications in which Andrés Pablo Salanova is involved.
Articles
2020 Counting and measuring in Mẽbengokre and the count/mass distinction A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories, Oliveira de Lima, Suzi and Susan Rothstein (eds.), pp. 300–311 | Article
Though there is no formal differentiation between count and mass nouns in Mẽbengokre, a Jê language from central Brazil, a contrast can be seen in the coercion that numerals and some quantifiers induce in mass nouns. This coercion, that leads to both a type of and unit of readings, is the only… read more
2011 Relative clauses in Mẽbengokre Subordination in Native South American Languages, Gijn, Rik van, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken (eds.), pp. 45–78 | Article
This paper describes and proposes an analysis of relative clauses in Mẽbengokre, a Je language from the eastern Amazon region of Brazil. Relative clauses in this language are normally internally-headed, and the verbal predicate within them assumes a nominal form, triggering ergative alignment. The… read more