When bare nouns scope wide. The case of Malagasy

Paul, Ileana

doi:10.1007/s11049-015-9302-z

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“…Moving beyond Western European languages, Paul (2016) According to Paul, (26) allows for the bare noun child to take scope over negation, such that there was a child that the doctor was not able to cure. Nakanishi and Tomioka (2004) argue that Japanese determinerless plurals can and even have to take wide scope:…”

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“…If narrow scope is the result of an underlying kind interpretation, the first step in the account of Malagasy bare nominals would be to check whether they are kind-referring. A preliminary discussion in Paul (2016) shows that the data are inconclusive. We leave it to future research to clarify the position of Malagasy in the overall debate on kind reference across languages.…”

Section: Apparent Wide Scope With Modal Verbsmentioning

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Exceptional wide scope of bare nominals

Bruyn

Swart

2022

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One of the strongest arguments in favor of the kinds approach to bare nominals is that they always take narrow scope with respect to other scope bearing operators in the sentence (Carlson 1977;Chierchia 1998;Dayal 2011). The publications supporting the obligatory narrow scope of bare nominals in a wide range of typologically different languages vastly outnumber the ones that claim the opposite. In this paper, we survey the facts from the literature, work out how the kinds approach deals with them, and identify scrambled bare plurals as the ultimate challenge for the kinds approach. Dutch examples illustrate that scrambled bare plurals unambiguously take wide scope with respect to quantifiers and negation, while maintaining kind reference. The kinds approach proves unable to derive the wide scope reading of bare plurals under a surface-oriented composition of scrambled objects. Once we abandon the default kind shift, following Krifka (2004), and allow bare plurals to directly shift to an existential interpretation, we can easily derive the wide scope reading with a local type repair. We conclude that a flexible type shifting approach to bare nominals is preferred over a default kind shift for empirical reasons.

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Exceptional wide scope of bare nominals

Bruyn

Swart

2022

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2021

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The questions this special issue addresses include but are not limited to the following:. What functional projections are found in the extended nominal projection? Is the functional hierarchy universal (Cinque 2010), language-specific, or is its variation constrained in some way (Wiltschko 2014)? . What kinds of reduced nominal expressions are found in natural language? Bare NPs? Bare NumPs? Cl+N expressions without numerals? Caseless nouns? How does this inventory of reduced nominals inform us about, and relate to noun incorporation and pseudo noun incorporation?

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Does D Select the CP in Light Verb Constructions? A Reply to Hankamer and Mikkelsen 2021

Srinivas

Legendre

2024

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The main contribution of the current response to Hankamer & Mikkelsen (2021; H&M) is a clarification of the meaning of the definite article the in out-of-the-blue occurrences of English light verb constructions, such as make the claim. While H&M view these as purely uniqueness-requiring determiners (as opposed to purely anaphoric ones in non-light verb constructions), we propose to classify them instead as instances of Carlsonian weak definites (e.g., Carlson et al. 2006, Aguilar-Guevara 2014, Klein et al. 2013, Schwarz 2014), which presuppose neither uniqueness nor anaphoricity. Such a clarification has further implications for H&M’s proposal—in particular, it casts doubt on their idea that the D in light verb constructions selects the descriptive CP, which serves to uniquely specify the intended referent. Additionally, we present some cross-linguistic data (from the Dravidian language, Kannada), that also serves to question the relationship between D and CP claimed in H&M. On the basis of these arguments, we conclude that D does not directly select the CP in light verb constructions. Nevertheless, we observe that these CPs do empirically behave like syntactically selected complements, and suggest that this is by virtue of the light verb construction taken together—that is, the light verb + the weak definite nominal—whose complement selection properties altogether parallel that of the corresponding lexical verbs. We propose a compositional analysis that reinforces this conclusion.

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When bare nouns scope wide. The case of Malagasy

Cited by 5 publications

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Exceptional wide scope of bare nominals

Exceptional wide scope of bare nominals

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Does D Select the CP in Light Verb Constructions? A Reply to Hankamer and Mikkelsen 2021

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