RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Coutinho Costa, Isabella YR 2020 T1 The count/mass distinction in Ye’kwana JF Linguistic Variation VO 20 IS 2 SP 409 OP 419 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.00030.cou PB John Benjamins SN 2211-6834, AB Abstract

This paper presents a description of the count/mass distinction in Ye’kwana, a Cariban language spoken in Brazil and Venezuela. The methodology used was based on Lima & Rothstein’s questionnaire this volume). The data shows that Ye’kwana is a bare noun language and that mass and count nouns can be pluralized. However, numerals need a container phrase in order to be directly combined with mass nouns. Nominal quantifiers wanna and ooje can be directly combined with count and mass nouns, but they show different interpretations., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/lv.00030.cou