Bare Nouns in Predicate Position in French

Beyssade, Claire

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“…First of all, given the well‐known restricted distribution of Bare Nominals in French (see a.o. Beyssade 2011; for a comparative approach on the distribution of BNs crosslinguistically, also including Italian and English, see Delfitto & Schroter 1991 and Longobardi 2001), French PAs appear in contexts where Italian would use Bare Nominals ((12)a) vs. (12)b)).…”

Section: Indefiniteness and Partitivity A Complex Relationshipmentioning

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Partitive Articles and Indefinites, Micro and Macrovariation

Pinzin

Poletto

2021

Studia Linguistica

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This introductory paper provides an overview of the main phenomena investigated in this Special Issue, such as the relation between the encoding of indefinites and the presence of genitive and definite markers, the relation between partitivity and indefiniteness and the distribution of these phenomena in minority, or “micro”, varieties – such as Italian dialects, Galloromance varieties, North and South Saami – compared to the distribution of the same phenomena in majority, or “macro”, varieties – such as French, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Estonian, Finnish, Czech and Serbian. The second part of the paper, then, provides an overview of the content of each original paper collected in the special issue.

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Section: Indefiniteness and Partitivity A Complex Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Partitive Articles and Indefinites, Micro and Macrovariation

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2021

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“…English allows bare plurals (for example in universal or generic in informal Quebec French, thus creating ambiguity between the masculine and feminine, especially when immediately preceding vowel-initial words (Barbaud et al, 1982). statements, Lions are carnivores), whereas French common nouns must nearly always be accompanied by a determiner (Les lions sont carnivores) except in highly literary contexts (see e.g., Beyssade, 2011). A longitudinal study of Pauline (Bassano and Maillochon, 1994), a French child from France aged 1.3-2.6 ( , and a cross-sectional study of 15 children, aged 1.8-3.0 years reveal high levels of mastery of all types of determiners produced in spontaneous speech.…”

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Definiteness and Maximality in French Language Acquisition, More Adult-Like Than You Would Expect

2018

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This study considers the mastery of maximality, or domain restrictions, in a group of 47 children acquiring French (aged 4.06-8.09), as well as a control group of young adults. Singular definite (le "the") and indefinite (un "a/one") plural (des "some," les "the") and explicitly maximal contexts (tous les "all the") were provided to participants. Animals were arranged in groups of three. Participants were asked to select one or more animals from these groups and give them to the experimenter (similar to Munn et al., 2006). Following Munn, we expected children to make maximality errors on the singular definite items. However, we did not observe this pattern. On the contrary we observed more errors on plurals generally. Further, the developmental patterns show that participants become less maximal in their responses to indefinite plurals (an adult-like pattern, also found in Caponigro et al., 2012) with no important changes on definite types: no strong age effects are observed on maximality patterns. These point to the importance of cross-linguistic data for the understanding of child language acquisition and error patterns in psycholinguistic theory.

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A description of bare noun phrases in Reunion Creole

Albers

2020

JPCL

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This paper discusses the general distribution and interpretation of bare noun phrases (BNPs) in Reunion Creole (RC). To set the required background for this description, it also discusses the count-mass distinction and offers an insight into the determiner system since elements such as prenominal lo and postnominal -la have received rather divergent designations and analyses in the literature. Observations rely on oral data and felicity judgments. We show that RC BNPs can occupy the same positions as noun phrases (NPs) modified by a determiner and that they can be left-dislocated, clefted and topicalized. We provide evidence that, except for some specific contexts, monosyllabic BNPs are not licensed and that the form lo is mandatory to build a grammatical NP out of nouns formed by a unique light syllable.1 We also demonstrate that, in these cases, lo is actually a semantically empty element. BNPs are number-neutral; we argue that existential BNPs are pseudo-incorporated in some cases but that they always have weak reference. BNPs can receive generic and kind readings, as well as an existential and a certain definite interpretation: they are weak definites, i.e. they are semantically, never pragmatically definite (following Löbner 1985, 1998, 2011, 2015).

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Bare Nouns in Predicate Position in French

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Partitive Articles and Indefinites, Micro and Macrovariation

Partitive Articles and Indefinites, Micro and Macrovariation

Definiteness and Maximality in French Language Acquisition, More Adult-Like Than You Would Expect

A description of bare noun phrases in Reunion Creole

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