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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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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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Understanding perspective-taking in multiparty conversations: insights from Mandarin nouns [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIndividuals frequently adopt others’ perspectives both when interpreting language and when formulating their own responses in conversation. This experiment tested how participants used perspective information to resolve references for bare nouns in ...
Xiaobei Zheng, Chao Sun
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Acquisition of bare nouns by Yoruba children
Journal of Modern Languages, 2015 This study is concerned with the acquisition of bare nouns by children acquiring Yoruba as their first language. The Minimalist Programme serves as the framework for our syntactic analysis of development of bare nouns by the Yoruba child.
Bá»lanle Elizabeth Arokoyá» +1 more
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Bare Nouns in Brazilian Portuguese: An experimental study on grinding
The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2016 Much literature has explored the interpretation of the bare singular (BS) in Brazilian Portuguese. Pires de Oliveira and Rothstein (2011) claim that BS nouns are mass because they denote kinds and argue that this explains why only the BS in Brazilian ...
Kayron Beviláqua
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Corela, 2023 Linguistic theories in general, and psychomechanics in particular, with its essentially binary model, struggle to account for bare nouns within the larger system of the articles.
Florent Moncomble
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Danish bare singular count nouns in subject position
Globe, 2022 This paper aims at investigating under which conditions Danish Bare Singular Count Nouns (BSCNs) can function as subjects in standard categorical statements, i.e. outside special discourse types such as proverbs, newspaper headlines, titles of paintings,
Henrik Høeg Müller
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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 +2 more
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020 This paper explores the countability of deverbal bare singular nouns in Brazilian Portuguese, such as chute ‘kick’ in Maria deu mais chute ‘Maria did more kicking/Maria did more kicks’. More specifically, it investigates whether the aspectual information
Adriana Leitão Martins, Suzi Lima
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Processing of Bare Nouns in BP: investiganting interfaces between cognitive domains
Gragoatá, 2018 This study investigates bare nouns processing by Brazillian-Portuguese (BrP) native speakers. Unlike other languages, BrP may accept singular and plural bare nouns in preverbal and postverbal positions in different syntactic-semantic domains.
Michele Monteiro de Souza, Cristina Name
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