New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond
Editors
This book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of nominal determination. Combining insights from different theoretical backgrounds and extending the empirical coverage of bare noun phenomena, the ten contributions provide new perspectives on long-standing but still actively debated problems as well as investigations into previously ignored issues. The volume focuses on the wide range of bare noun phenomena in Romance languages, including Spanish, Catalan, Brazilian and European Portuguese, Italian and French; but also widens its inherently comparative perspective to languages such as Bulgarian and Modern Hebrew. The authors discuss the importance of cross-linguistic patterns in the modeling of the syntax and semantics of noun phrases and of common noun denotations, the role of information structure as well as that of discourse traditions and coordination.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 141] 2013. v, 334 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 November 2013
Published online on 1 November 2013
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Laying bare nominal determination: An introduction to the present volumeAlbert Wall and Johannes Kabatek | pp. 1–34
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Some cross-linguistic aspects of bare NP distribution: Modern Hebrew and Brazilian PortugueseSusan D. Rothstein | pp. 35–62
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Bare nominals, bare predicates: Properties and related typesM. Teresa Espinal | pp. 63–94
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Spanish bare plurals and topicalizationBrenda Laca | pp. 95–120
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Information structure and the distribution of Spanish bare pluralsManuel Leonetti | pp. 121–156
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Bare nominals in American-Spanish headlinesDaniel M. Sáez Rivera | pp. 157–188
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Bare singular arguments in Brazilian Portuguese: Perfectivity, telicity, and kindsRoberta Pires De Oliveira and Susan D. Rothstein | pp. 189–222
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The distribution of specific and definite bare nominals in Brazilian PortugueseAlbert Wall | pp. 223–254
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‘Bare quantifiers’ and topics in ItalianFranck Floricic | pp. 255–282
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Coordinated bare nouns in French, Spanish and European PortugueseChristina Märzhäuser | pp. 283–300
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Bare vs. non-bare nouns: Two kinds of indefinites in BulgarianElena Gorishneva | pp. 301–328
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Index | pp. 329–334
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General