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- Title
Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: more on the DP/NP analysis.
- Authors
Cyrino, Sonia; Espinal, M.
- Abstract
In this paper we claim that Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese come in two shapes. Real BNs, by which we mean bare count nouns not specified for number and definiteness, correspond to NPs that can only occur as objects of a reduced class of predicates (namely, those that express a have-relation) and are interpreted as property-type expressions. Other BNs can be definite and, although not morphophonologically specified for number, they are DPs with null Determiners morphosyntactically specified for Number features and are interpreted as entity-type expressions. We base our analysis on the distribution and meaning of BNs, by comparing BrP with other Romance languages, mainly (Old and Modern) French on the one hand, and Spanish and Catalan on the other.
- Subjects
NOMINALS (Grammar); DETERMINERS (Grammar); PORTUGUESE language; SYNTAX (Grammar); MORPHOLOGY (Grammar); ROMANCE languages
- Publication
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2015, Vol 33, Issue 2, p471
- ISSN
0167-806X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11049-014-9264-6