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Eléments pour une typologie des emplois du nom défini marqué et du nom nu en créole haïtien
Études Créoles, 2019 This paper presents a corpus study for definite NPs in haitian creole. It aims at defining criteria for choosing between bare nouns and marked nouns. We show that well-known parameters as familiarity, previous mentions are important, but we add semantic ...
Hélène Manuélian
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DOM and Nominal Structure—Some Notes on DOM with Bare Nouns
Languages, 2022 Differential object marking (DOM) interacts with nominal structure in complex ways across Romance languages. For example, in Spanish, it has been claimed to ban bare nominals.
Monica Alexandrina Irimia
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A Note on Reference to Kinds in Mandarin: the N-leikind Compound
Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2017 This squib examines a special kind-referring expression in Mandarin Chinese, the N-leikind compound. We show that like Mandarin bare nouns, N-leikind compounds also denote kinds, but they can only be instantiated by sets of (sub) kind entities at type ...
Li XuPing
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Glossa, 2017 In this paper, we offer some preliminary remarks on the syntax-semantics of the nominal system in Cape Verdean (CV) in comparison to English, with the aim of having a better understanding of Number Neutral Languages (Chierchia 2010; 2015).
Jair Martins, Roberta Pires de Oliveira
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Number neutral amounts and pluralities in Brazilian Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2010 The main goal of the paper is to elucidate the notion of ‘number neutrality’ in such a way that we can account for contrasts between bare plurals and number-neutral count bare nouns in Brazilian Portuguese.
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin
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Bare singular and bare mass nouns in Brazilian Portuguese: First results of an empirical survey
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2010 The paper investigates the behavior of Bare Singulars (BS) and Bare Mass (BM) nouns in Brazilian Portuguese (BrP) in two acceptability experiments. The traditional view on the BS (Munn & Schmitt, 2005) argues that its syntax and semantics differs ...
João Vinicius de A. Braga +3 more
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Isogloss, 2022 Some Romance languages, like Spanish, encode narrow scope indefinite objects without any over determiner (Bare Nouns; como pan ‘I eat bread’), while others, like French, require the insertion of an overt prenominal marker, labeled Partitive Article (PA;
Francesco Pinzin, Cecilia Poletto
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دلالة ما جاء على صيغة "فـُعُل" في القرآن الكريم [PDF]
آداب الرافدين, 2008 The present study deals with Quranic nouns which have the root (فـُعُل) (fu’ul). They have the formula of the bare triple noun. The number of words which have this formula are 19 arranged alphabetically for convenience so that the study can appear in ...
n Yahya
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Coerção e subespecificação: nomes nus no inglês e no português brasileiro
Revista LinguísticaThis paper investigates the semantics of bare nouns in English and Brazilian Portuguese, analyzing the results of experiments in the count-mass domain in both languages.
Gitanna Bezerra +3 more
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Variables and Values in Children’s Early Word-Combinations
Psychology of Language and Communication, 2014 A model of syntactic development proposes that children’s very first word-combinations are already generated via productive rules that express in syntactic form the relation between a predicate word and its semantic argument. An alternative hypothesis is
Ninio Anat
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