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CogniTextes, 2022 From a cognitive‑semantic perspective, two important conceptual schemas underlie determiner use and the count/mass distinction in languages such as English and French, namely bounding and definiteness.
Evelyn Wiesinger
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The existential in Xhosa in relation to indefiniteness
Studies in African Linguistics, 2020 Bare nouns in languages without articles can be semantically ambiguous between definite and indefinite interpretations. It is here assumed that speakers of such languages can still signal to the hearer when they refer to unique and identifiable ...
Eva-Marie Bloom Ström
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The Syntax of Null Possessors with Kinship Terms and Body Part Nouns in Vietnamese
LanguagesBare nouns representing kinship terms (KNs) and body parts (BPNs) can be assumed to project a null possessor argument, which allows for the interpretation of such nouns relative to other linguistically present NPs.
Andrew Simpson, Linh Pham
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When quantifiers do not agree: three systems
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2012 Basque weak quantifiers optionally agree with the inflected verb in number. This papers’ main aim is to study the dialectal variation shown by this phenomenon.
Ricardo Etxepare, Urtzi Etxeberria
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DECOMPOSING DEFINITENESS IN VIETNAMESE
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2021 This paper provides a detailed description of how Vietnamese encodes definiteness in the nominal phrase in the context of the crosslinguistic debate about the existence of lexical articles in classifier languages.
Trang Phan, Lam Quang Dong
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Retour sur les noms propres standard modifiés [PDF]
Linguística, 2006 In this article, we intend to return to the polemic and controversial treatment of the modifi ed proper nouns. In the fi rst part of this article, we expose the main points of the «corrected» version of the analysis of proper nouns presented in Kleiber ...
Georges Kleiber
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Defining “incorporation” with bare singulars in Romanian [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2014 This paper revisits the problem of bare singular count nouns in Romanian (see Tănase-Dogaru 2007, 2008). The vantage point bare singulars are analyzed from in this paper is the framework known in the literature as “incorporation”.
Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru
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External possession meets bare nouns in Malagasy
Lingua, 2009 Abstract This paper examines apparent noun incorporation in Malagasy that is the result of external possession (possessor raising). It is shown that such incorporation is not derived via head movement or via compounding. Instead, it is argued that this is an instance of pseudo noun incorporation (Massam, 2001): the possessum is merged as an NP sister
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Syntactic and semantic issues in sequences of the type (Adjective)-Noun-(Adjective)
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2013 This paper focuses on some properties of agreement inside the Noun Phrase, especially in what concerns adjectives and “adjectival quantifiers”, based on spoken corpora of Brazilian Portuguese and of the five African varieties of Portuguese (with special ...
Amália Mendes, Matilde Miguel
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Remember they were emotional - Effects of emotional qualifiers during sentence processing
Open Psychology, 2019 We investigated whether emotional information facilitates retrieval and whether it makes representations more salient during sentence processing. Participants were presented with sentences including entities (nouns) that were either bare, with no ...
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