This dissertation examines the behavior of bare singular noun phrases, a set of English nominals showing no formal indication of either definiteness or mass/ count status. Although they appear to be count nouns, I show that these nominals represent maximal projections.

Last modified

• 06/12/2020

Creator

• Laurel Smith Stvan

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/n2-2nne-gm09

Subject

• Linguistics

Keyword

• semantics
• noun phrases
• activity implicature
• familiarity implicature
• maximal projections

Date created

• 1998

Resource type

• Dissertation

Rights statement

• In Copyright