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New perspectives on bare noun phrases in romance and beyond /
This paper investigates distributional and semantic properties of two kinds of indefinite NPs in Bulgarian: bare nouns vs. NPs headed by edin 'one'. The central question, which constitutes a subject of intense debate in the literature, is whether there is a semantic (and pragmatic) differe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2013.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
141. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents; Laying bare nominal determination; 1.1 Setting the scene; 1.2 Research on BNs and Romance: A first survey; 1.3 A word on "bareness"; 1.4 Really bare, just zero or rather without shape?; 2. The challenges; 2.1 Combining approaches; 2.2 Towards an agenda of BN studies; 2.3 Methodological considerations for future research; 3. The contributions in this volume; 4. Outlook; References; Some Cross-linguistic aspects of bare NP distribution; 1. Introduction; 2. Doron (2003).
- 3. Brazilian Portuguese4. Modern Hebrew; 5. Accounting for bare singulars in Modern Hebrew; 6. Some conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Bare nominals, bare predicates; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Baker's (2003) syntactic approach; 1.2 Chierchia's (1998) Neocarlsonian approach; 1.3 Partee's (1987) Type shifting operations; 2. Properties of kinds; 3. Properties of individual objects; 4. Gradable properties; 5. Capacities; 6. Conclusion; References; Spanish bare plurals and topicalization; 1. Introduction; 2. Towards a uniform approach to BPLs.; 2.1 BPLs as property denotations.
- 2.2 BPLs and information structure3. Topicalized BPLs.; 3.1 The position of topicalized BPLs.; 3.2. Topicalized BPLs, indefinite argument drop, and nominal ellipsis; 3.3 Split topicalization; 4. Conclusion; References; Information structure and the distribution of Spanish bare plurals; 1. The naked noun constraint; 2. The role of information structure; 2.1 Topics and bare nouns; 2.1.1 The constraint on preverbal subjects is derived from topicality; 2.1.2 Two problems with topicality; 2.2 Two kinds of topics; 2.2.1 Preverbal subjects and dislocated phrases.
- 2.2.2 The licensing of bare nouns as dislocated topics2.2.3 Internal and external topics impose different constraints; 2.2.4 Two proposals on subjects and topics; 2.2.5 The contrastive value of external topics; 2.3 Non-referential expressions as topics; 2.4 Bare plurals and focus; 2.5 Information structure and the grammar of bare plurals; 2.5.1 Semantic incorporation of internal and external arguments; 2.5.2 Why narrow focus is relevant; 2.5.3 Preverbal subjects of unaccusative verbs; 3. Conclusions; References; Bare nominals in American-Spanish headlines; 1. Introduction.
- 2. Objectives and corpus3. Data: Geographical differences; 4. The possibility of English influence; 5. Discourse explanation; 6. Conclusions; References; Bare singular arguments in Brazilian Portuguese Perfectivity, telicity, and kinds; 1. Introduction; 2. Bare singulars in episodic predicates; 2.1 The subject position; 2.2 Bare objects of perfective predicates; 3. Explaining the data: The role of kinds; 3.1 Kinds as arguments of episodic predicates; 3.2 Explanation: The subject position; 3.3 The bare object; 4. Some consequences of the bare singular as kind-denoting.