Less form - more meaning: Why bare singular nouns are special

Lingua

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 280-295

  de Swart, Henriëtte ^a   Zwarts, Joost ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bare nouns; Markedness; Optimality Theory; Stereotypicality

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149265014     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.10.015     Document Type: Article

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