Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: An integral approach
Albert Wall
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 245] 2017. xv, 322 pp.
Albert Wall
List of John Benjamins publications for which Albert Wall plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond
Edited by Johannes Kabatek and Albert Wall
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 141] 2013. v, 334 pp.
Subjects Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2016 Exploring and recycling: Topichood and the evolution of Ibero-romance articles Exaptation and Language Change, Norde, Muriel and Freek Van de Velde (eds.), pp. 341–375 | Article
This paper discusses the concept of syntactic exaptation (see Traugott 2004) by considering two changes which involve re-use of highly grammaticalized linguistic material and have as yet received little attention. We claim that exaptation is an appropriate label to describe the outcome of both… read more
2013 The distribution of specific and definite bare nominals in Brazilian Portuguese New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond, Kabatek, Johannes and Albert Wall (eds.), pp. 223–254 | Article
This paper presents and discusses evidence from two corpus studies on Brazilian Portuguese (BrP) bare nominals (BNs) in the light of the overwhelmingly formal syntactic and semantic literature on this topic. It is shown that these approaches have failed to identify a subclass of BrP BNs, namely… read more
2013 Laying bare nominal determination: An introduction to the present volume New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond, Kabatek, Johannes and Albert Wall (eds.), pp. 1–34 | Article