Bare Nouns in Brazilian Portuguese: An experimental study on grinding

Much literature has explored the interpretation of the bare singular (BS) in Brazilian Portuguese. Pires de Oliveira and Rothstein (2011) claim that BS nouns are mass because they denote kinds and argue that this explains why only the BS in Brazilian Portuguese can have a non-cardinal interpretation...

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Main Author: Kayron Beviláqua
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2016-12-01
Series:The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication
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Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/biyclc/vol11/iss1/2