Bare and Not-So-Bare Nouns and the Structure of NP

• Autores: Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Rint Sybesma
• Localización: Linguistic inquiry, ISSN 0024-3892, Vol. 30, Nº 4, 1999, págs. 509-542
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article examines the distribution and interpretational variability of bare nouns and [classifier+noun] phrases in Cantonese and Mandarin. We argue that bare nouns are never bare in structure and that [classifier+noun] phrases may have more structure than just Classifier Phrase. We show that the lack of articles and number morphology in Cantonese/Mandarin leads to many interesting differences between Chinese-type languages and English-/Italian-type languages.