Suzi Oliveira de Lima

List of John Benjamins publications in which Suzi Oliveira de Lima is involved.

Journal

Linguistic Variation

General Editor: Hedde Zeijlstra

ISSN 2211-6834 | E‑ISSN 2211‑6842

Title

A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories

Edited by Suzi Oliveira de Lima and Susan Rothstein

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 20:2 (2020) vi, 247 pp.

Articles

Oliveira de Lima, Suzi and Cristiane Oliveira 2022 Chapter 11. Value and cardinality in the evaluation of bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics: Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018, Alboiu, Gabriela and Ruth King (eds.), pp. 193–206 | Chapter

Previous studies have explored two semantic features – cardinality and volume – to shown that bare singulars such as banana in Eu comi banana (I ate banana) allows a count and a mass interpretation in Brazilian Portuguese. In this chapter we explore whether other features such as value impact… read more

Bomfim, Anari and Suzi Oliveira de Lima 2020 Count and mass nouns in Patxohã 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. 324–335 | Article

This paper describes the count/mass distinction in Patxohã, a revitalized language spoken in Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil. We observe that only count nouns can be directly combined with numerals and that only count nouns can co-occur with plural determiners. Furthermore, only count nouns can… read more

Oliveira de Lima, Suzi and Susan Rothstein 2020 A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories 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. 174–218 | Article

While much work has been done on the description of the mass/count distinction in different geographical areas, Brazilian Indigenous languages are still highly underrepresented in the field. This paper presents the results of a project that involved researchers describing the mass/count… read more