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Record W4389496188 · doi:10.16995/glossa.9334

Countability in Kaingang

2023· article· en· W4389496188 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueGlossa a journal of general linguistics · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNounSpan (engineering)Style (visual arts)LinguisticsFontPsychologyMathematicsArtificial intelligenceComputer sciencePhilosophyArtLiterature

Abstract

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This paper is the first investigation of nominal countability in Kaingang, a Jê language spoken in Brazil. The main claim of this paper is that all Kaingang nouns are lexically count. This hypothesis is supported by a number of morphosyntactic and semantic properties of nouns in the language. Among them two crucial properties emerge: (i) Kaingang allows numerals and other count quantity expressions to combine directly with individual and substance nouns, and (ii) in quantity judgement tasks (Barner & Snedeker 2005) comparisons with both types of nouns are cardinality-based. I analyze this generalized counting strategy as a direct effect of the lexical semantics of nouns. Building on Krifka’s approach (1989; 2007; 2008), I argue that all Kaingang nouns are born quantized, i.e., they are lexically equipped with a context-sensitive built-in counting function that measures quantities in terms of individual- or portion-units. This paper contributes with additional crosslinguistic evidence to two claims: (i) that the mass/count distinction in the nominal domain isn’t a language universal (Wiltschko 2012), and (ii) that the defining property of count nouns is quantization, rather than atomicity (Krifka 1989; 2007).

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.233
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.038
GPT teacher head0.275
Teacher spread0.237 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it