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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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Bare nouns and specificity disambiguation in Tunen
, 2021 Talk at Bantu8 workshop "Definiteness and specificity in languages with bare nouns: The case of Bantu", Friday 4th June 2021, University of ...
Elisabeth J. Kerr
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Bare nouns in european portuguese
, 2018 This dissertation aims describing the syntactic, semantic and discursive conditions of occurrence of pre-verbal Subject Bare Noun Plurals in European Portuguese. Bare Noun Phrases occur in several languages though their distribution varies. Mass and plural count nouns may occur in English and in Romance languages (except French) either as arguments or ...
Soares, Nuno João Verdial Rosa
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Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article [PDF]
, 2020 This volume edited by Tabea Ihsane focuses on different aspects of the distribution, semantics, and internal structure of nominal constituents with a “partitive article” in its indefinite interpretation and of potentially corresponding bare nouns.
Ihsane, Tabea (Ed.)
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Verbs, nouns and affixation [PDF]
, 2008 What explains the rich patterns of deverbal nominalization? Why do some nouns have argument structure, while others do not? We seek a solution in which properties of deverbal nouns are composed from properties of verbs, properties of nouns, and ...
Alexiadou, Artemis, Grimshaw, Jane
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Sujets existentiels et génériques – La position du français dans une théorie des noms « nus » [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesExistential 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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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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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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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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