Sérgio Meira
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sérgio Meira is involved.
2021 Chapter 3. Antipassive in the Cariban family Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions, Janic, Katarzyna and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.), pp. 65–96 | Chapter
To date, no published reference grammar of a Cariban language has described an antipassive construction. However, all languages of the family have a cognate verbal morpheme, termed detransitivizer, which prefixes to a transitive verb to derive an intransitive verb. While monovalent, the… read more
2005 Review of Aikhenvald (2002): Language contact in Amazonia Studies in Language 29:1, pp. 168–179 | Review
2003 1. ‘Addressee effects’ in demonstrative systems:
The cases of Tiriyó and Brazilian Portuguese
Deictic Conceptualisation of Space, Time and Person, Lenz, Friedrich (ed.), pp. 3–11 | Article
2000 The accidental intransitive split in the Cariban family Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization, Gildea, Spike (ed.), pp. 201–230 | Article