This monograph addresses fundamental syntactic issues of classifier constructions, based on a thorough study of a typical classifier language, Mandarin Chinese. It shows that the …
I Kučerová - Linguistic inquiry, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
I argue for a novel model of feature valuation in the CI interface and explore under what circumstances a syntactic feature is semantically interpretable. As the groundwork for the …
L McNally - The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Milsark introduced the terms weak and strong to distinguish (respectively) the nominals that could appear in English there‐existential sentences (eg, some trees, cf. There are some …
B Gehrke - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2015 - Springer
Due to their hybrid nature, German adjectival participles display properties of both adjectives and verbs. In particular, their verbal behaviour is evidenced by the restricted availability of …
V Dayal, Y Sağ - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Determiners and bare nouns raise questions about the interface between morphosyntax and semantics. On the syntactic side, the primary issue is whether bare nouns have a null …
Y Sağ - Linguistics and Philosophy, 2022 - Springer
This paper explores the semantics of bare singulars in Turkish, which are unmarked for number in form, as in English, but can behave like both singular and plural terms, unlike in …
This paper is devoted to the study of definite kinds and other generic expressions, such as subkinds and definite plurals in argument position in Romance, namely Spanish. We …
V Dayal - The syntax and semantics of pseudo-incorporation, 2015 - brill.com
This paper deals with two well-established types of incorporation, canonical incorporation of N 0 categories and pseudo-incorporation of NP/NumP. It also deals with the proposal that …
S Cyrino, MT Espinal - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2015 - Springer
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 …