Updating the typology of definiteness: Evidence from bare nouns in Shan

(In)definiteness-driven typology of arbitrary items

This article explores a typology of impersonal constructions [1] (constructions with arbitrary interpretations or arbs) in Russian, German, and English based on their semantic and discourse-pragmatic properties. (1) They speak English in America. The goal of this work is twofold. First, I want to introduce a meaning-based typological distinction into the realm of impersonals. I will argue that ...

the role of russia in transmission of energy from central asia and caucuses to european union

پس ازفروپاشی شوروی،رشد منابع نفت و گاز، آسیای میانه و قفقاز را در یک بازی ژئوپلتیکی انرژی قرار داده است. با در نظر گرفتن این منابع هیدروکربنی، این منطقه به یک میدانجنگ و رقابت تجاری برای بازی های ژئوپلتیکی قدرت های بزرگ جهانی تبدیل شده است. روسیه منطقه را به عنوان حیات خلوت خود تلقی نموده و علاقمند به حفظ حضورش می باشد تا همانند گذشته گاز طبیعی را به وسیله خط لوله مرکزی دریافت و به عنوان یک واس...

Bare Nouns in Brazilian Portuguese

Bare nominals, classifiers and the representation of definiteness in Bangla

Much attention has been given to the encoding of definiteness in Bangla by means of structures in which the neutral order of classifier preceding noun shown in (1) is inverted to produce a sequence of noun before classifier, as in (2). Such N>CL forms in which no numeral occurs are often referred to as ‘bare classifier’ patterns. See, for example Bhattacharya (1999), Chacon (2012), Jiang (2014)...

Bare Nouns and the Morphosyntax Of

The syntax and semantics of bare nominal expressions has been the subject of much research over the past few years. Two fundamental distinctions are generally assumed: bare nominals are generally restricted to plural and mass terms (unless they are proper names) and the "interesting" cases of bare nominals are those that appear in argument positions. We will call the first distinction the singu...