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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Bare nouns"”.
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Definiteness and Quantification: Evidence from Shan
… theories of nominal reference. Looking at bare nouns, classifier constructions, and several types of relative clauses, I develop an account of definiteness and quantification that (i) connects the mass/count distinction to atomicity—providing a unified approach to count and measure …
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Definiteness and Specificity in Second and Third Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese
… these features through a more complex system of bare nouns, classifiers, numerals, demonstratives, and modifiers. These variations provide unique cases for our empirical study on the acquisition of definiteness and specificity in an article-less language (i.e., Mandarin), a topic that has …
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Variación Sintáctico-Semántica Del Artículo Definido en Sintagmas Nominales en El Español De Hispanohablantes De Herencia
… to explore the cross-linguistic differences in bare and determined nouns in Spanish and English, as well as the interpretation, generic or specific, that this population assigns to preverbal nouns that are modified only by a definite article. For these two languages, nouns differ in their …