New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond

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New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond is written by Johannes Kabatek and published by John Benjamins Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9027271259 (ISBN 10) and 9789027271259 (ISBN 13).

This book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of nominal determination. Combining insights from different theoretical backgrounds and extending the empirical coverage of bare noun phenomena, the ten contributions provide new perspectives on long-standing but still actively debated problems as well as investigations into previously ignored issues. The volume focuses on the wide range of bare noun phenomena in Romance languages, including Spanish, Catalan, Brazilian and European Portuguese, Italian and French; but also widens its inherently comparative perspective to languages such as Bulgarian and Modern Hebrew. The authors discuss the importance of cross-linguistic patterns in the modeling of the syntax and semantics of noun phrases and of common noun denotations, the role of information structure as well as that of discourse traditions and coordination.