The empirical scope of this article is defined by the so-called 'existential' reading of bare plurals in some Romance and Germanic languages. The hypothesis is that the typological differences with respect to the distribution of bare plurals can be reduced to universal principles of grammar, plus independently motivated morphological differences

Bare plurals and the number affix in DP

DELFITTO, Denis;
1991-01-01

Abstract

The empirical scope of this article is defined by the so-called 'existential' reading of bare plurals in some Romance and Germanic languages. The hypothesis is that the typological differences with respect to the distribution of bare plurals can be reduced to universal principles of grammar, plus independently motivated morphological differences
1991
bare nouns; number feature; existential reading
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