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Asymmetries in the Acceptability and Felicity of English Negative Dependencies: Where Negative Concord and Negative Polarity (Do Not) Overlap [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Negative Concord (NC) constructions such as the news anchor didn’t warn nobody about the floods (meaning “the news anchor warned nobody”), in which two syntactic negations contribute a single semantic one, are stigmatized in English, while their Negative
Frances Blanchette, Cynthia Lukyanenko
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Bare Plurals in Spanish are Interpreted as Properties
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2004 In this paper, I argue that bare plural noun phrases in Spanish unambiguously denote properties of individuals. I begin by using evidence from their incompatibility with kind-level predicates to show that Spanish bare plurals do not denote kinds.
Louise McNally
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The Role of Alternatives in Language
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 In this review we provide a discussion of the concept of alternatives and its role in linguistic and psycholinguistic theorizing in the context of the contributions that have appeared in the Frontiers Research Topic The Role of Alternatives in Language ...
Sophie Repp, Katharina Spalek
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Indefinite readings of referential null subjects and null objects in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2023 It has been claimed in the literature that referential null subjects receive definite readings in consistent null-subject languages, like Spanish. That is why they are said to display the typical behavior of definite pronouns (pro). However, referential
Carlos Martínez García
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Brazilian Portuguese noun phrases: An optimality theoretic perspective
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2015 In this paper we examine the nominal system in Brazilian Portuguese (BrP), a challenge to cross-linguistic studies which rely on the generalization that a language that has indefinites should not have bare nouns.
Henriëtte de Swart +1 more
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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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Dynamics of interacting populations language contact in the Lwoo languages of Bahr el-Ghazal
Studies in African Linguistics, 2003 Number inflection systems in Western Nilotic languages appear highly complex and diverse. Comparative work on Nilotic and other Nilo-Saharan families has shown that these languages have a morphologically tripartite system with marked plurals and a bare ...
Anne Storch
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Bare plurals and achievements: a case study of aspectual verbs
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2010 This paper aims to analyse in what way Brazilian Portuguese bare plurals affect the aspectual structure of a sentence whose VP is headed by an achievement verb.
Marcus Vinicius +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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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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