Mário Coelho da Silva

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mário Coelho da Silva is involved.

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Nevins, Andrew and Mário Coelho da Silva 2020 Maxakalí has suppletion, numerals and associatives but no plurals 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. 271–287 | Article

The Maxakalí language lacks additive plurals (akin to dog-s) on nouns, but has associative plurals, and a large set of suppletive verbs that indicate whether the internal argument is plural or not. Although it has no plural marking, Maxakalí distinguishes between count nouns and mass nouns. The… read more