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Bare Nouns In Brazilian Portuguese: An Experimental Study On Grinding, Kayron Beviláqua, Suzi Lima, Roberta Pires De Oliveira
Bare Nouns In Brazilian Portuguese: An Experimental Study On Grinding, Kayron Beviláqua, Suzi Lima, Roberta Pires De Oliveira
Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication
Much literature has explored the interpretation of the bare singular (BS) in Brazilian Portuguese. Pires de Oliveira and Rothstein (2011) claim that BS nouns are mass because they denote kinds and argue that this explains why only the BS in Brazilian Portuguese can have a non-cardinal interpretation. In this paper, based on an experimental task with Brazilian Portuguese adult speakers, we explore one of their predictions, namely that the ‘volume interpretation’ of the BS cannot be explained as a case of Grinding. Our results show that Grinding and Volume readings of a BS noun are not equivalent (in favor of …