Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: more on the DP/NP analysis

Autor(es)

Cyrino, Sonia ^[1] ; Teresa Espinal, M. ^[2]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Estadual Campinas, Inst Estudos Linguagem, Dept Linguist, BR-13083859 Campinas, SP - Brazil

^[2] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Ctr Linguist Teor, Dept Filol Catalana, Bellaterra 08193 - Spain

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: NATURAL LANGUAGE & LINGUISTIC THEORY; v. 33, n. 2, p. 471-521, MAY 2015.
• Citações Web of Science: 11

Resumo

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. (AU)

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