Spanish Bare Plurals and Topicalization

Brenda Laca (1)

1 SFL - Structures Formelles du Langage

This paper addresses the problem of "topicalized" BPls, which appear at the left edge of the clause and are excluded from clauses with a reduced CP-structure. We sketch an analysis in which the type-shifting operation on the verb required for the existential import of such structures is triggered by a null property-denoting nominal, whose existence in Spanish is independently suggested by cases of indefinite argument drop and by NPs/DPs lacking a nominal head.

Domaines: Linguistique

Brenda Laca. Spanish Bare Plurals and Topicalization. International Workshop on Sentence-Initial Bare Nouns, Jun 2011, Tübingen, Germany. ⟨hal-00773224⟩