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Individuation, counting, and measuring in the grammar of Kadiwéu
- Source: Linguistic Variation, Volume 20, Issue 2, Oct 2020, p. 239 - 254
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- 01 Oct 2020
Abstract
Abstract
This work approaches some grammatical differences in the linguistic expression of counting, measuring, aggregating, and quantity comparison and partition in Kadiwéu, a classifier language spoken in Brazil. This paper brings evidence via the grammar of comparison and partition that the counting/measuring distinction is a genuine grammatical distinction. This work also shows that aggregate nouns in Kadiwéu pattern grammatically neither with substance nouns nor with naturally atomic object nouns. That is, Kadiwéu has a specific grammatical expression for groups as atoms.
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