Abstract

STENSRUD KROHN, Haakon. Nominal countability in Spanish and Bribri from a functional typological perspective. Káñina [online]. 2016, vol.40, n.1, pp.73-92. ISSN 2215-2636.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rk.v40i1.24141.

This article focuses on the notions of countable and mass nouns in Spanish and Bribri from a functional typological perspective, which considers the morphosyntactic codification as an iconic reflection of the speaker's conceptualization of the referent. The dominant theories in the field assert that in numeral classifier languages, like Bribri, all nouns are always mass, unlike nouns in languages that don't have such classifiers. However, our approximation indicates that the differences between the two language types regarding the nominal countability are minimal.

Keywords : Spanish; Bribri; nominal countability; morphosyntax; numeral classifiers.

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