Mara Santos
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mara Santos is involved.
Article
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