Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese : An Integral Approach.

Intro -- Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Index of tables -- Index of figures -- List of abbreviations and remarks on glosses -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The orientation and organization of this work -- 1.2 What data do we want to account for? -- 1.3 (Bare) Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese and linguistic theory -- 1.3.1 Nominal semantics -- 1.3.1.1 (In)definiteness -- 1.3.1.2 Mass/count and seinsarten -- 1.3.1.3 Reference and referential anchoring -- 1.3.1.4 Genericity -- 1.3.1.5 Further assumptions -- 1.3.2 Syntax: DP or not DP is not the question -- 1.3.2.1 DP/NP and parameters -- 1.3.2.2 Zero/null/empty Ds -- 1.3.2.3 Strong syntax in spite of "weak" phonetics and phonology? -- 1.3.2.4 Consequences for parametric analyses -- 1.3.2.5 New questions about the BrP data -- 1.3.3 The interface problem: From syntax to acoustics - and back again -- 1.4 Empirical demands, challenges, and a research program -- 1.4.1 Towards a "serious corpus study" on BrP BNs -- 1.4.2 Methodological issues in acceptability judgment tasks on BrP BNs -- 1.4.3 Exploring phonetics/phonology and perception -- 1.5 Towards an integral approach -- Chapter 2. The literature on Brazilian Portuguese bare nominals -- 2.1 BNs in (more or less) traditional grammars -- 2.2 The issue of syntactic and semantic parameters -- 2.3 Argumenthood and reference -- 2.4 Genericity and the notion of kinds -- 2.5 Mass or count or neither? -- 2.6 Bare plurals and agreement -- 2.7 (In)definiteness -- 2.8 Information structure -- 2.9 Incorporation -- 2.10 Acquisition -- 2.11 Interim balance -- 2.11.1 On problems and consensus -- 2.11.2 Desiderata -- 2.12 The diachronic perspective: Kabatek 2002 -- 2.12.1 Do the Romance articles follow some grammaticalization cycle?.

2.12.2 Implications from Kabatek (2002) for a synchronic analysis of BrP BSs -- 2.13 Wrapping up: The two basic theoretical and empirical questions -- Chapter 3. Article assimilation and bare nominals -- 3.1 External vocalic sandhis in Brazilian Portuguese -- 3.1.1 Leda Bisol's account of external sandhis in Brazilian Portuguese and reactions -- 3.1.2 Prosody -- 3.1.3 Restriction of EL to word-final /a/ -- 3.1.4 The so-called "monomorphemes" -- 3.1.5 Fusion vs. deletion and the number of processes -- 3.1.6 A first balance -- 3.2 External sandhis and the (definite) articles -- 3.2.1 EL and DE with articles in unstressed contexts -- 3.2.2 DE with articles under word stress -- 3.2.3 Non-vocalic contexts -- 3.3 Evidence from perception: A forced choice experiment -- 3.3.1 Materials and experiment design -- 3.3.2 Results -- 3.3.3 Discussion -- 3.4 Contrasting European and Brazilian Portuguese -- 3.4.1 The corpus study -- 3.4.2 Feature coding -- 3.4.3 Results: The distribution of possible assimilation contexts -- 3.4.4 Discussion and conclusion -- 3.5 Vocalic articles in Romance languages -- 3.6 OCP-effects on Romance articles as evidence for syntactic status -- 3.6.1 A typology of OCP-effects in Romance -- 3.6.2 The phonological-perceptual hypothesis and encapsulated syntax -- Chapter 4. Definite/specific (and some generic) BSs in corpora -- 4.1 Spoken language -- 4.1.1 Mobral, Peul, Nurc -- 4.1.2 IBORUNA -- 4.1.3 Big Brother Brazil -- 4.1.4 The Frog Story corpus -- 4.2 Written language -- 4.2.1 Jornal do Brasil -- 4.2.2 Other written sources -- 4.3 Discussion -- 4.3.1 Objections -- 4.3.2 Overview of relevant features -- 4.3.2.1 Preliminary observations and general tendencies -- 4.3.2.2 Discursive, semantic and syntactic features -- 4.3.3 Digression: Genericity -- 4.4 Summary and conclusions.

Chapter 5. Acceptability Judgment Tasks on (generic and specific) BrP BSs -- 5.1 Acceptability Judgment Tasks on BrP: Advances and challenges -- 5.1.1 Issues in experiment design -- 5.1.2 Issues in data interpretation -- 5.1.3 Consistency of samples and mean judgments across subjects -- 5.1.4 Advances: an interim summary -- 5.2 How (not) to test obligatoriness of definiteness and specificity marking in BrP -- 5.3 Bare singulars in canonical definiteness contexts: New results -- 5.3.1 Participants -- 5.3.2 Procedure and implementation -- 5.3.3 Materials and design -- 5.3.4 Results -- 5.3.4.1 Consistency of samples -- 5.3.4.2 Judgments and statistics -- 5.3.4.3 Discussion -- 5.4 Conclusions -- Chapter 6. Towards an integral approach -- 6.1 Answering the empirical questions -- 6.1.1 Are there any syntactic restrictions on argumental BNs in BrP? -- 6.1.2 Explanations beyond syntax and semantics -- 6.1.3 Further empirical questions -- 6.2 Nominal determination in the integral perspective -- 6.2.1 Syntax: The presence and absence of determiners -- 6.2.1.1 Brazilian Portuguese bare singulars and DP analyses -- 6.2.1.2 Towards a novel analysis -- 6.2.1.3 The syntactic core -- 6.2.1.4 Lager syntactic units and the place of semantics -- 6.2.1.5 Levels of syntactic abstraction -- 6.2.2 Semantics: denotational domains and seinsarten -- 6.2.3 Genericity in the integral perspective -- 6.2.4 The integral analysis: summary and examples -- 6.2.5 General theoretical implications and an open question -- 6.3 Answering the theoretical questions -- 6.3.1 Why are there no restrictions on BSs in BrP? (ThQ1) -- 6.3.2 Explaining the distribution and interpretation of BSs in BrP (ThQ2) -- 6.3.3 Linking ThQ1 and ThQ2 -- 6.4 Concluding remarks -- Bibliography -- Corpora and other linguistic data sources and tools -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.

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