Bare Nominals and Number in Brazilian and European Portuguese
This paper investigates the semantics of bare nominals (BNs) in Brazilian and in European Portuguese. More specifically, it addresses the constraints regarding their occurrence and interpretation in these languages, and evaluates their implications for the Nominal Mapping Parameter as proposed in Ch...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2004-06-01
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Series: | Journal of Portuguese Linguistics |
Online Access: | http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/17 |