Brazilian Bare Phrases and Referentiality: Evidences from an Experiment

Definite and Bare Kind-denoting Noun Phrases

To express the same meaning, Romance languages (here and elsewhere, I exemplify with Italian), standardly use noun phrases with a definite article: the plural definite with count nouns and the singular definite with mass nouns (sing. il/la/lo/l’, plur. i/gli/le) (2). A singular definite article with count nouns is also possible (3), with the same restrictions as in English (see e.g. Lawler 1973...

An Experiment on Bare-Metal BigData Provisioning

Many BigData customers use on-demand platforms in the cloud, where they can get a dedicated virtual cluster in a couple of minutes and pay only for the time they use. Increasingly, there is a demand for bare-metal bigdata solutions for applications that cannot tolerate the unpredictability and performance degradation of virtualized systems. Existing bare-metal solutions can introduce delays of ...

DP hypothesis for Japanese “bare” noun phrases

Bare Nouns in Brazilian Portuguese

Some remarks on referentiality

The main focus of this paper is on two issues: which, if any, NPs can be used to refer, and which, if any, NPs can be (truthfully) said to refer all by themselves. It is evident just from this statement that we will be dealing with two distinct reference relations – a pragmatic relation holding among speakers, expressions, and entities out in the world (so to speak); and a semantic relation hol...