Bare and Not-So-Bare Nouns and the Structure of NP-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Bare and Not-So-Bare Nouns and the Structure of NP

Published:1999-10 Issue:4 Volume:30 Page:509-542
ISSN:0024-3892
Container-title:Linguistic Inquiry
language:en
Short-container-title:Linguistic Inquiry

Author:

Cheng Lisa Lai-Shen¹,Sybesma Rint²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Linguistics, 3151 Social Science Plaza, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-5100,

2. Department of General Linguistics, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands,

Abstract

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.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/002438999554192

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