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Bare and Not-So-Bare Nouns and the Structure of NP
Linguistic Inquiry, 1999 This article examines the distribution and interpretational variability of bare nouns and [classifier+noun] phrases in Cantonese and Mandarin. We argue that bare nouns are never bare in structure and that [classifier+noun] phrases may have more structure than just Classifier Phrase.
Sybesma, R.P.E., Cheng, L.L.
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Learning English bare singulars: Data in the L2 classroom
EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 2016 Contrasted with the more typical English bare noun forms of mass and proper nouns, bare singular count nouns comprise a problematic set for many descriptive grammars and thus for many second language learners.
Laurel Smith Stvan, Suganthi John
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Number Morphology and Bare Nouns in Some Romance Dialects of Italy
Languages, 2022 This paper explores aspects of microvariation concerning the morphological realization of the feature Number within nominal structures in a selected subset of Romance dialects of Italy.
Cristina Guardiano +2 more
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Revista Linguística, 2018 This paper investigates the referential properties of bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese. The literature on referentiality on Spanish has claimed that indefinites, but not bare nouns, can establish and introduce new referents in the discourse.
Ohanna Teixeira Barchi Severo
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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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Indefinite object drop is lexically constrained
GlossaThis paper discusses the lexical constraints regulating the occurrence of indefinite null objects in European Spanish in comparison to European Portuguese.
Carlos Martínez-García +2 more
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Lexicalization of Light Verb Structures and the Semantics of Nouns
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2004 In this study I shall focus on two Romance idiomatic patterns and the semantics of nouns. It is shown that idioms, in addition to having distinct basic argument structure representations, are formed in syntax by various instantiations of Merge.
M. Teresa Espinal
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Indefiniteness in Francoprovençal. A Real Bare de? New Hints from the Consonantal Liaison
Géolinguistique, 2022 In Romance languages the indefinite articles are generally the result of prepositions + determiners (P + D) contraction, de + definite Article, combined with nominals within indefinite Determiners Phrases (DPs).
Michela Russo
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Covert nominals and argument ellipsis in Punjabi
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 The focus of the study is to find out the potential identity of null arguments in Punjabi. However, the paper provides different patterns of interpretations of null arguments present in Punjabi by keeping in view the propositions of Takahashi (2012, July)
Bisma Butt +4 more
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Acquisition of referentiality in elicited narratives of Estonian-speaking children
Open Linguistics, 2022 This study addresses the acquisition of referential expressions in pre-schoolers’ narratives in Estonian. A total of sixteen 6- to 7-year-old typically developing monolingual Estonian children were tested using the story “Baby Goat” from the Multilingual
Argus Reili, Kütt Andra
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