Bruna Franchetto
List of John Benjamins publications in which Bruna Franchetto is involved.
2020 Count, mass, number and numerals in Kuikuro (Upper Xingu Carib) 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. 255–270 | Article
This article deals with the multiple reflexes of the mass versus count distinction in Kuikuro, a dialect of a southern-branch language of the Carib family, spoken by 600 people at the edge of Brazilian Southern Amazonia. It updates and deepens previous research results presented in Franchetto… read more
2017 The ontology of roots and the emergence of nouns and verbs in Kuikuro: Adult speech and children’s acquisition Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches, Vapnarsky, Valentina and Edy Veneziano (eds.), pp. 275–306 | Chapter
Kuikuro, a dialect of the Upper Xingu Carib Language (Southern Amazonia, Brazil), cannot be defined as polycategorial. Instead, we argue that it is a highly agglutinative language in which the postulates of Distributed Morphology are extremely effective for their descriptive and explanatory power:… read more
2010 The ergativity effect in Kuikuro (Southern Carib, Brazil) Ergativity in Amazonia, Gildea, Spike and Francesc Queixalós (eds.), pp. 121–158 | Article
This article first gives a typological and morphosyntactic profile of Kuikuro, a southern Cariban language. Kuikuro has ergative nominal case marking and alingnments, as well as nearly identical nominal and verbal inflection. The second part focuses on the absolutive and ergative Cases, the former… read more
2010 Bridging linguistic research and linguistic documentation: The Kuikuro experience (Brazil) New Perspectives on Endangered Languages: Bridging gaps between sociolinguistics, documentation and language revitalization, Flores Farfán, José Antonio and Fernando F. Ramallo (eds.), pp. 49–64 | Article
This article aims at discussing the relation between linguistic research and documentation projects based on a long term field experience among the Kuikuro, a Carib speaking people living in Southern Amazonia (Brazil). Kuikuro is an endangered language, spoken by about 600 individuals, who suffer… read more
2008 Language, ritual and historical reconstruction: Towards a linguistic, ethnographical and archaeological account of Upper Xingu Society Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages, Harrison, K. David, David S. Rood and Arienne Dwyer (eds.), pp. 129–158 | Article
In this article we present results from interdisciplinary research among the Kuikuro of the Upper Xingu (Brazil). The project integrates linguistic, ethnographic and archaeological data as a means to reconstruct the processes through which peoples speaking languages of the three largest South… read more