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2019
Abstract Mass nouns and plural count nouns are syntactically acceptable in argument positions without determiners; for example: “Goodness is rare”; “Dogs are common.” Contrast the syntactic unacceptability of “Dog is common.” Such so-called bare noun phrases are associated with various readings: universally, generically, and ...
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Abstract Mass nouns and plural count nouns are syntactically acceptable in argument positions without determiners; for example: “Goodness is rare”; “Dogs are common.” Contrast the syntactic unacceptability of “Dog is common.” Such so-called bare noun phrases are associated with various readings: universally, generically, and ...
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Bare Nouns and the Hungarian Mass/Count Distinction
2019We argue that in Hungarian notionally count, singular nouns like konyv (‘book’), toll (‘pen’), and haz (‘house’) are semantically number-neutral (see also Farkas and de Swart (2010)). This departs from the view that such nouns are dual-life with respect to being count or mass, such as brick or stone in English, as recently argued by Rothstein (2017 ...
Kurt Erbach, Peter R. Sutton, Hana Filip
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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
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The acceptability of Subject bare nouns and (non-bare) DPs in Italian.
2021The acceptability of Subject bare nouns and (non-bare) DPs in Italian. An experimental study comparing Italian L1 and Polish L1- Italian L2 speakersThe role played by determiners and syntactic position in the interpretation of Subjects is a vexed question for linguistic research and a number of works have been dedicated to this issue, from different ...
Pinto, Manuela, Frascarelli, Mara
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Analysing bare nouns in Marathi
Linguistic Proceedings SeriesThis study uses translation mining methodology to analyse bare nouns in Marathi. (In)definite expressions from English were compared to their corresponding referential expressions in Marathi to understand the interpretation of bare nouns. We found that the numeral ‘one’ behaved as an indefinite article in Marathi, while bare nouns got a definite ...
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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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Sovpadenie? Frame manipulation with bare nouns
Russian Linguistics, 2019The paper deals with the use of bare nouns in a non-coordination-based context. In the first part, the communicational function of the bare noun construction is analysed as part of a more general use of bare nouns for labelling evoked semantic frames. The specific subset of bare nouns depends on one or more propositions in the left context and provides
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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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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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