Determiner Restriction in Bare Singulars and Weak Definites
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This paper attempts to support Carlson and Sussman’s (2005) claim that English weak definites and bare singulars should be classified into the same group and to suggest that the peculiar forms of bare singulars and weak definites are attributed to the semantic structure of a noun. I propose that nouns in weak definite DPs and bare singulars do not simply denote entities but have event/argument structure. Under this approach, the absence of a determiner or the non-ordinary use of the definite article is understood as a general characteristic of nouns with event/argument structure. Weak definites and bare singulars show the same restrictions of determiners as complex event nominals and gerunds. It is also possible to extend the proposed analysis to account for weak definite readings with relational nouns and to generalize weak definite readings in different constructions.
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This paper attempts to support Carlson and Sussman’s (2005) claim that English weak definites and bare singulars should be classified into the same group and to suggest that the peculiar forms of bare singulars and weak definites are attributed to the semantic structure of a noun. I propose that nouns in weak definite DPs and bare singulars do not simply denote entities but have event/argument structure. Under this approach, the absence of a determiner or the non-ordinary use of the definite article is understood as a general characteristic of nouns with event/argument structure. Weak definites and bare singulars show the same restrictions of determiners as complex event nominals and gerunds. It is also possible to extend the proposed analysis to account for weak definite readings with relational nouns and to generalize weak definite readings in different constructions.
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