26.3651, Diss: Ling Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax, Typology: Chiara Truppi: 'Bare Nouns Among and Beyond Creoles...'

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Subject: 26.3651, Diss: Ling Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax, Typology: Chiara Truppi: 'Bare Nouns Among and Beyond Creoles...'

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:33:58
From: Chiara Truppi [chiara_truppi at yahoo.it]
Subject: Bare Nouns Among and Beyond Creoles: A Syntactic-Semantic Study of Kriyol Bare Noun Phrases Based on a Crosslinguistic Comparison and the Theoretical Implications

 
Institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 
Program: Department for German Language and Lingustics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2014 

Author: Chiara Truppi

Dissertation Title: Bare Nouns Among and Beyond Creoles: A Syntactic-Semantic
Study of Kriyol Bare Noun Phrases Based on a
Crosslinguistic Comparison and the Theoretical Implications 

Dissertation URL:  http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/browsing/docviews/abstract.php?lang=ger&id=41967

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Dissertation Director(s):
Manfred Krifka
Alain Kihm

Dissertation Abstract:

The nature of the present dissertation is threefold: i) descriptive, ii) comparative, and iii) theoretical. After a brief general discussion on the history and grammar of Guinea-Bissau Creole, and after an extensive review of various approaches on BNPs, both from the semantic and syntactic perspective, the present work will offer an exhaustive description of the distribution and interpretation of Bare Noun Phrases in GBC. They may be found in both argument and nonargument positions. The general tendency for BNPs in GBC is to yield a definite reading (subjects, recipient objects, in topicalizion, dislocation and clefting). One difference is that bare patient objects may yield any possible interpretation, except from the specific plural. BNPs interpretation is driven by contextual factors as well as by aspect and predicate type. Perfective and continuous imperfective contexts trigger definite specific readings for bare objects. One difference is that bare objects in habitual imperfecti
 ve contexts yield indefinite nonspecific interpretations. As for predicate types, bare subjects of stage-level predicates yield existential readings, whereas bare subjects of individual-level predicates derive definite generic readings. The present work also undertakes a crosslinguistic comparison between creoles and noncreoles: i) Cape Verdean Creole, Santome, Papiamentu and Brazilian Portuguese; and ii) Mandarin Chinese, Vietnamese and Gbe languages. It turns out that BNPs distribution and interpretation are quite homogeneous. Importantly, BNPs in any of these languages may yield both singular and plural readings: BNPs are thus unspecified as for Number. This leads us to our theoretical discussion on Number: starting from Depréz’s (2007) Plural Parameter and its basic assumptions (e.g. BNPs are unspecified as for Number, and the basic denotation of nouns is kind of type e), a new model, and the consequent linguistic typology, is developed.



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