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Bare singulars and relative measures in Brazilian Portuguese
Glossa, 2022 Brazilian Portuguese has received much attention in the typology of noun phrases for being a language with a fully-fledged determiner system that also allows generalized bare singular nominals.
Guillaume Thomas, Suzi Lima
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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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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020 This paper explores the countability of deverbal bare singular nouns in Brazilian Portuguese, such as chute ‘kick’ in Maria deu mais chute ‘Maria did more kicking/Maria did more kicks’. More specifically, it investigates whether the aspectual information
Adriana Leitão Martins, Suzi Lima
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Design, development and evaluation of an automatic metering system for bare root seedlings of onion [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural Machinery, 2016 Introduction In recent years due to lack of water resources in our country, planting of bare root seedlings of onion has been welcomed by farmers. Considering the desired high dense planting of Iranian farmers, lack of proper transplanting machine has ...
M Tohri +3 more
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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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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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Subject Bare Singulars in Brazilian Portuguese and Information Structure
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2015 This paper contributes to the debate on the semantics of bare singular nouns (BSNs) in Brazilian Portuguese by looking at the restrictions on their use as subjects. After a reassessment of the literature (e.g., Schmitt & Munn 1999, Müller 2000, Pires
Jenny Doetjes +2 more
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The morpho-semantics of number in Brazilian Portuguese bare singulars
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2010 In this paper, I provide evidence against the idea that bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) are morphologically singular but semantically number neuter.
Marcelo Ferreira
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DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2010 Apresentam-se neste estudo os resultados de investigação em banco de dados de língua falada e escrita e de um experimento psicolinguístico sobre a gramaticalidade de sentenças genéricas com singular nu no português brasileiro.
Roberta Pires de Oliveira +2 more
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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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