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Bare singulars and relative measures in Brazilian Portuguese

Author(s) -

Suzi Lima,

Guillaume Thomas

Publication year - 2022

Publication title -

glossa a journal of general linguistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2397-1835

DOI - 10.16995/glossa.5779

Subject(s) - linguistics , portuguese , measure (data warehouse) , relative clause , typology , romance languages , determiner , noun , romance , range (aeronautics) , mathematics , psychology , sociology , philosophy , computer science , materials science , database , anthropology , psychoanalysis , composite material

Brazilian Portuguese has received much attention in the nominal typology literature for being a language with a fully-fledged definite determiner system that also allows generalized bare singulars and bare plurals. We present a description of relative measures in Brazilian Portuguese showing that definiteness is a predictor of conservative construals and that non-conservative construals may be encoded by bare plurals and bare singulars. We show that the availability of bare singulars with a non-conservative interpretation in relative measure structures is compatible with an analysis of bare singulars as kind-denoting terms in the language.

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