CPs: Copies and compositionality

K Moulton - Linguistic Inquiry, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Finite clausal arguments differ from other arguments—and other CPs—in two fundamental
ways:(a) they do not move leftward (,,,) and (b) they may combine with nouns that do not …

[图书][B] Classifier structures in mandarin Chinese

NN Zhang - 2013 - books.google.com
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 …

ɸ-features at the syntax-semantics interface: Evidence from nominal inflection

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 …

Strong and weak nominals

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 …

Adjectival participles, event kind modification and pseudo-incorporation

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 …

Determiners and bare nouns

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 …

Bare singulars and singularity in Turkish

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 …

Reference to kinds and to other generic expressions in Spanish: definiteness and number

O Borik, MT Espinal - The Linguistic Review, 2015 - degruyter.com
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 …

Incorporation: Morpho-syntactic vs. semantic considerations

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 …

Bare nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: More on the DP/NP analysis

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 …