Processing Coercion in Brazilian Portuguese: Grinding Objects and Packaging Substances

Lima, Suzi

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01563-3_11

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“…As such, Brazilian Portuguese challenged Chierchia's typology precisely because of the availability of bare singulars in subject and object argument positions. Since Chierchia's nominal typology, much of the literature on Brazilian Portuguese explored the syntactic distribution and semantic interpretation of bare singulars (Beviláqua & Pires de Oliveira 2014, 2019Ferreira 2010;Lima & Gomes 2016;Lima & Oliveira in press;Menuzzi, Silva & Doetjes 2015;Müller 2002;Müller & Oliveira 2004;Munn & Schmitt 2005;Paraguassu-Martins & Müller 2007; Pires de Oliveira & Rothstein 2011a, 2011b; Pires de Oliveira & de Swart 2015; Schmitt & Kester 2005;Schmitt & Munn 1999, 2002, among many others). The vast majority of the examples discussed in this literature focused on one particular lexical class of nouns: nouns that denote concrete individuals.…”

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Aspectual information of durativity/punctuality impacts the countability of deverbal nouns in Brazilian Portuguese

Lima¹,

Martins²

2020

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics

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This paper explores the countability of deverbal bare singular nouns in Brazilian Portuguese, such as chute 'kick' in Maria deu mais chute 'Maria did more kicking/Maria did more kicks'. More specifically, it investigates whether the aspectual information of a verb impacts the count (cardinal interpretation) or mass (volume/intensity interpretation) interpretation of a bare singular noun. Based on the results of a forced choice task replicating Barner, Wagner, and Snedeker (2008) for English, we show that deverbal bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese allow count and mass interpretations, depending on the aspectual features of the verbs they are derived from. Punctual events were more likely than durative events to be associated with a cardinal/count response. These results corroborate previous analysis of bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese, whereby these nouns allow both count and mass interpretations (Pires de Oliveira & Rothstein 2011b).

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