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The Fox or Mr Fox?: Particularization of the bare noun [PDF]

Journal of Modern Languages, 2014
In numeral classifier languages a dog-type noun (i.e. a noun that refers to a kind subsuming some similar individuated entities or things) is also an NP by default.
Gautam K. Borah
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Probing the role of bounding, definiteness and other factors: bare noun and determiner use in Guianese French Creole

CogniTextes, 2022
From a cognitive‑semantic perspective, two important conceptual schemas underlie determiner use and the count/mass distinction in languages such as English and French, namely bounding and definiteness.
Evelyn Wiesinger
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Definiteness without determiners in German

Glossa, 2021
The paper investigates conditions for the bare occurrence of noun phrases in the topic position of specificational copula clauses in German. It is shown that this is a predicate position for non-referential NPs.
Ljudmila Geist
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Updating the typology of definiteness: Evidence from bare nouns in Shan

Glossa, 2021
This paper demonstrates that bare nouns in Shan (Tai-Kadai) can express both unique and anaphoric definiteness, a distinction first noted by Schwarz (2009).
Mary Moroney
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Bare noun phrases in focus

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2010
The international cooperation research program between Brazil and France, CAPES/COFECUB, entitled “Bare Nouns in Brazilian Portuguese: the Syntax-Semantics Interface” (2009), coordinated by Roberta Pires de Oliveira (UFSC/CNPq) and Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (
Roberta Pires de Oliveira
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Bare singulars and relative measures in Brazilian Portuguese

Glossa, 2022
Brazilian Portuguese has received much attention in the typology of noun phrases for being a language with a fully-fledged determiner system that also allows generalized bare singular nominals.
Suzi Lima
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Existe-t-il des « noms nus » en latin ?

Pallas, 2016
Since in Latin all noun phrases lack articles and therefore can be called “bare nominals”, my aim is to investigate whether Latin displays the same semantic properties as the ones appearing in the opposition between “bare noun phrases” and noun phrases ...
Bernard Bortolussi
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Variation in the Occurrence and Interpretation of Articles in Malagasy: A Comparison with Italian

Languages, 2022
In languages that have a definite article but no indefinite article, the definite article typically maps to definites, and the bare noun maps to indefinites.
Ileana Paul, Giuliana Giusti, Gianluca E. Lebani   +2 more
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Sujets existentiels et génériques – La position du français dans une théorie des noms « nus » [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences
Existential and generic subjects ‒ The position of French in a theory of bare nouns. It has been shown that, semantically, noun phrases introduced by the partitive article des in French show on the one hand similarities with bare nouns in Germanic ...
Sleeman Petra
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Indefinite readings of referential null subjects and null objects in Spanish

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2023
It has been claimed in the literature that referential null subjects receive definite readings in consistent null-subject languages, like Spanish. That is why they are said to display the typical behavior of definite pronouns (pro). However, referential
Carlos Martínez García
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