Bare and Not-So-Bare Nouns and the Structure of NP
This article examines the distribution and interpretational variability of bare nouns and [classifier+noun] phrases in Cantonese and Mandarin. We argue that bare nouns are never bare in structure and that [classifier+noun] phrases may have more structure than just Classifier Phrase. We show that the lack of articles and number morphology in Cantonese/Mandarin leads to many interesting differences between Chinese-type languages and English-/Italian-type languages.
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2020 ◽
Vol 6
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pp. 173-194
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pp. 28-43
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pp. 173-184
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