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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2015-06-01
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Series: | Journal of Portuguese Linguistics |
Online Access: | http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/59 |