Bare plurals in Spanish are interpreted as properties

Catalan Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 115-133

  McNally, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bare nominals; Incorporation; Properties; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 40949137232     PISSN: 16956885     EISSN: 20149719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5565/rev/catjl.107     Document Type: Article

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