Information structure and the referential status of bare plurals

Autor/innen

  • Norberto Moreno
  • Isabel Pérez

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.23.2001.119

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to study the influence of information structure in the referential status of linguistic expressions such as bare plurals and indefinite NPs in Spanish. In particular, we will argue for the following claims: (a) Spanish bare plurals can receive a generic interpretation in object position and (b) Spanish bare plurals in object position can be topics in siru. We will focus on object position because of the well known semantic and syntactic constraints that affect preverbal subject bare plurals in Spanish.

 

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2001

Zitationsvorschlag

Moreno, Norberto, und Isabel Pérez. 2001. „Information Structure and the Referential Status of Bare Plurals“. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 23 (Januar):160-70. https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.23.2001.119.