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DOM and Nominal Structure—Some Notes on DOM with Bare Nouns

Languages, 2022
Differential object marking (DOM) interacts with nominal structure in complex ways across Romance languages. For example, in Spanish, it has been claimed to ban bare nominals.
Monica Alexandrina Irimia
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DECOMPOSING DEFINITENESS IN VIETNAMESE

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2021
This paper provides a detailed description of how Vietnamese encodes definiteness in the nominal phrase in the context of the crosslinguistic debate about the existence of lexical articles in classifier languages.
Trang Phan, Lam Quang Dong
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Cuesta arriba e por llano: The development of “postpositions” in Spanish and Catalan

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2005
In this article we analyze the formation of Spanish and Catalan phrases with an intransitive locative adverb preceded by a bare noun. These constructions can have a meaning of path and direction (i. e. Sp. río abajo, Cat.
Gemma Rigau, Manuel Pérez Saldanya
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The morpho-semantics of number in Brazilian Portuguese bare singulars

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2010
In this paper, I provide evidence against the idea that bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) are morphologically singular but semantically number neuter.
Marcelo Ferreira
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The NP vs. DP debate. Why previous arguments are inconclusive and what a good argument could look like. Evidence from agreement with hybrid nouns

Glossa, 2020
The DP-hypothesis as proposed in Abney (1987) is nowadays generally taken for granted in formal syntactic work. In this paper I will show that a surprising number of arguments that have been provided in the literature are not conclusive.
Martin Salzmann
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Coerção e subespecificação: nomes nus no inglês e no português brasileiro

Revista Linguística
This paper investigates the semantics of bare nouns in English and Brazilian Portuguese, analyzing the results of experiments in the count-mass domain in both languages.
Gitanna Bezerra, Roberta Pires de Oliveira, Dionatan Bastos Cardozo, Diego Rodrigues Lopes   +3 more
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Brazilian Portuguese noun phrases: An optimality theoretic perspective

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2015
In this paper we examine the nominal system in Brazilian Portuguese (BrP), a challenge to cross-linguistic studies which rely on the generalization that a language that has indefinites should not have bare nouns.
Henriëtte de Swart, Roberta Pires de Oliveira   +1 more
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Variables and Values in Children’s Early Word-Combinations

Psychology of Language and Communication, 2014
A model of syntactic development proposes that children’s very first word-combinations are already generated via productive rules that express in syntactic form the relation between a predicate word and its semantic argument. An alternative hypothesis is
Ninio Anat
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The mass/count distinction in Japanese from the perspective of partitivity

Glossa, 2017
This article presents a novel set of observations concerning partitive constructions that indicate that bare nouns in Japanese can be marked with the singular/plural distinction, despite the absence of its overt morphological reflection. The new data set
Akira Watanabe
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Noun phrase in Cape Verdean

Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2013
This paper presents a study on the Cape Verdean noun phrase, undertaking a comparison with European Portuguese (EP), Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and Guinea-Bissau Creole (Kriyol).
Wânia Miranda
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