Chapter published in:
Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: An integral approach
Albert Wall
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 245] 2017
► pp. 161–202

Chapter 4
Definite/specific (and some generic) BSs in corpora

Article outline
  • 4.1Spoken language
    • 4.1.1Mobral, Peul, Nurc
    • 4.1.2 IBORUNA
    • 4.1.3Big Brother Brazil
    • 4.1.4The Frog Story corpus
  • 4.2Written language
    • 4.2.1Jornal do Brasil
    • 4.2.2Other written sources
  • 4.3Discussion
    • 4.3.1Objections
    • 4.3.2Overview of relevant features
      • 4.3.2.1Preliminary observations and general tendencies
      • 4.3.2.2Discursive, semantic and syntactic features
    • 4.3.3Digression: Genericity
  • 4.4Summary and conclusions