argument as shown in examples 2a and 2b. This construction does not involve intransitivization, and the eccentric agreement is a product of object focus morphology. According to Everett (2006), many phenomena in Karitiana follow a nominative pattern generally due to the pragmatic status of arguments. The author argues that the grammatical relations of Karitiana suggest a system where syntactic phenomena often tend to display nominative-accusative patterns, and morphological phenomena tend to display ergative-absolutive patterns. Semantics Quantification Noun phrases (NPs) in Karitiana surface as bare nouns, without any functional operator, such as inflection to mark number or definiteness. Bare nouns can refer to one or more entities, definite or indefinite, and these are determined by the context in which they occur. Karitiana does not require numeral classifiers, thus numerals receive the oblique suffix -t and are directly linked to common nouns. The numeral system consists of units from 1 to 5, and larger numbers are expressed with a combination of these units. Karitiana makes a lexical distinction between mass and count nouns. Count nouns can be counted directly, while mass nouns require a system of measurement. Quantifying expressions can behave like adverbs or nouns. The word si’ĩrimat is used to mean nobody or never, and the word kandat is used to express quantification of nouns and verbs. Universal quantification is conveyed by the expression (ta)akatyym, where -ta is a third person anaphora, aka is the verb to be, and tyym is the SUBordinate particle. This expression roughly means those who are. Anaphoric ta is used when the quantifying expression is not adjacent to the noun it modifies, and is not necessary when it is adjacent to the noun. References Further reading “Karitiâna”. Ethnologue, SIL International, www.ethnologue.com/18/language/ktn/. Kindell, Gloria E. 1981. “Descrição preliminaria da estrutura fonológica da língua Karitiâna”. G.E. Kindell, Guia de análise fonológica, SIL, pp. 196–226 Landin, David J. Dicionário e Léxico Karitiana/Português. Summer Institute of Linguistics, 2005 Muller, Ana. “Distributividade: o caso dos numerais reduplicados em karitiana”. Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos. UNICAMP, vol. 54, pp. 225–243, 2012. Muller, Ana; Sanchez-Mendes, L. "O Significado da Pluracionalidade em Karitiana". Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos. UNICAMP, vol. 52, pp. 215–231, 2010. Muller, Ana. “Variação semântica: individuação e número na língua Karitiana”. Estudos Lingüísticos. Universiadade de São Paulo, vol. 38, pp. 295–308, 2009. Rocha, Ivan. Não-Finitude em Karitiana: subordinação versus nominalização. Ph.D. Thesis. University of São Paulo, 2016 Rocha, Ivan. A estrutura argumental da