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Bare nouns with different edges
2010The central observation in this paper is that bare nouns display an ambiguous interpretation only under coordination. Adopting a strict syntax-semantic mapping, this paper focuses on this property and argues that the ambiguity follows from the level of complexity of the left periphery: plural and mass bare nouns have different readings according to ...
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Bare Numeral Classifier Phrases and Bare Nouns in Mandarin
2020Chapter 2 examines Mandarin numeral classifier phrases. It begins with a discussion of a list of tendentially universal properties of numeral-noun phrases in number marking languages (NMLs) like English and French and argues for a D-less analysis of them.
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2007
The present article argues that the traditional accounts of Palenquero's article system are fundamentally flawed. Schwegler's revisionist analysis is largely based on data he had collected in situ, but also relies on Moñino (in press), who similarly questions the traditional accounts of the Palenquero article system. Mo ñ ino and Schwegler have reached
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The present article argues that the traditional accounts of Palenquero's article system are fundamentally flawed. Schwegler's revisionist analysis is largely based on data he had collected in situ, but also relies on Moñino (in press), who similarly questions the traditional accounts of the Palenquero article system. Mo ñ ino and Schwegler have reached
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Between bare nouns and demonstratives
Chinese Language and Discourse. An International and Interdisciplinary JournalAbstract Identifiability, a universal semantic notion for referential interpretation, is realized differently across languages. While many languages encode identifiability via morphosyntactic definiteness (e.g., articles the and a/an in English), Mandarin lacks overt (in)definite articles and ...
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Discourse Properties of Bare Noun Objects
2015In this paper we investigate discourse transparency of ‘pseudo-incorporated’ nominals in Persian, that is, the possibility of being taken up by anaphoric expressions in subsequent discourse. Persian Incorporated Nominals (INs) at first sight seem to belong to the class of discourse opaque languages such as Hindi and Hungarian.
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Specific classifiers versus unspecific bare nouns
Lingua, 2017Abstract Based on rare language data from a Chinese minority language, we argue for a particular theory of specific and unspecific reference. We understand specific versus unspecific reference as the properties of picking out one versus not-one (set of) referents in the discourse context.
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8. Bare nouns in Réunionnais Creole
2007This paper examines the determiner system of Réunionnais Creole (RC) with a special focus on the use, interpretation and distribution of its bare nouns. The synchronic part of the study involves a comparison of bare nouns between RC and Modern French whereas the diachronic section considers RC and Middle French in an attempt to determine the origins of
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Analyzing Yorùbá Bare Nouns as DP
Lagos Notes and Records, 2009This paper examines count nouns in Yorùbá and makes the claim that such nouns are bare (cf. Ajiboye 2005). Structurally, it proposes that the nouns are to be analyzed as Noun Phrases (NPs) that are contained inside a Determiner Phrase (DP) which is headed by a null Determiner (D). The claim is supported by both empirical and theoretical evidence.
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Bare nouns in Slavic and beyond
The article presents a study of the distribution of singular bare nouns in threeSlavic languages, Russian, Polish and Macedonian, based on parallel translationcorpora. The distribution of bare singulars in Russian and Polish shows that theyfreely appear in definite and indefinite contexts, which makes it possible to classifythese languages as truly ...Borik, Olga +3 more
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Bare singular nouns in Middle Norwegian
2019AbstractOld Norwegian allowed bare singular count nouns (BSNs) to a greater extent than Modern Norwegian. This chapter discusses BSNs in the transitional period between these two language stages, Middle Norwegian. It is shown that although BSNs are not very frequent in Middle Norwegian, they do occur, especially with indefinite interpretation; their ...
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