Reduplicated Numerals as Pluractionals: Distributivity as a Window to the Individuation of Events

The focus of this paper are Reduplicated Numerals in Mandarin Chinese (Sino-Tibetan) and in Karitiana (Arikém, Tupi). Our goal is to elucidate their semantics and thus to contribute to the understanding of the relation between distributivity and individuation in the event domain. It is well known th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marta Donazzan, Ana Lúcia Müller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2015-06-01
Series:Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
Online Access:http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/59