Keywords
Quantifiers
Plural
Countable
Massive
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Abstract
The present dossier "Studies on the mass-count distinction" of the Journal LIAMES – Línguas Indígenas Americanas presents the description of the syntactic distribution and interpretation of count and mass nouns in six indigenous languages: Parkatêjê (Macro Jê), Rikbaktsa (Macro Jê), Kheuól do Uaçá (Creole language), Nadëb (Naduhup), Ticuna (isolated language) and Wa'ikhana (Eastern Tukano).
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