Pluractionality of Events in Macuxi: A Morpho-Syntactic and Semantic Analysis
This paper discusses how pluractionality is expressed in Macuxi (Cariban), a South American Indigenous language spoken in Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela. Cross-linguistically, the multiplicity of an action can be expressed by means of specialized pluractional morphemes affixed on verbs, via adverbs, o...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2023-09-01
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/4/225 |