Bare nominals and reference to capacities

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 195-222

  De Swart, Henriëtte ^a   Winter, Yoad ^b   Zwarts, Joost ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bare nominal; Capacity; DP structure; Indefinite; Number; Predication

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847624534     PISSN: 0167806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-006-9007-4     Document Type: Article

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