Bare nominals in Catalan and Spanish. Their structure and meaning

Lingua

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 984-1009

  Espinal, M Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bare nominals; Catalan; Number neutrality; Property denotation; Spanish

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649179869     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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