How Comparative is Semantics? A Unified ParametricTheory of Bare Nouns and Proper Names

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Reference to individuals, person, and the variety of mapping parameters (2008, background): “…(Contreras 1986 and much subsequent work), have ECP-free distribution, like proper names (14) and (15) can be descriptively unified as (16) (cf. Longobardi 2001, Delfitto 2002): (16) a. Italian bare nouns: only quantificational expressions (syntactic variables, i.e. indefinites, like overt…”
Internal and external interfaces in bilingual language development: Beyond structural overlap (2009, background): “More recently Longobardi (2001, 2005) independently proposed another account of the cross-linguistic difference between English and Italian in the distribution of bare nouns (see also Longobardi, 1994).”
Bare nominals and incorporating verbs in Spanish and Catalan1 (2010, background): “(47) (a) Restrict(lylx[portar(x,y)],motxilla)=lylx[portar(x,y)^motxilla(y)] (b) EC(lylx[portar(x,y)^motxilla(y)])=lx9y[portar(x,y)^motxilla(y)] [25] See comments in Farkas & de Swart (2003: Chapter 7) on this point.”
Bilingual children's sensitivity to specificity and genericity: Evidence from metalinguistic awareness* (2009, background): “Address for correspondence: Ludovica Serratrice, The University of Manchester, School of Psychological Sciences, HCD, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK Serratrice@manchester.ac.uk on whether they are interpreted as specific or as generic (Longobardi, 1994, 2001).”