New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Laying bare nominal determination -- 1.1 Setting the scene -- 1.2 Research on BNs and Romance: A first survey -- 1.3 A word on "bareness" -- 1.4 Really bare, just zero or rather without shape? -- 2. The challenges -- 2.1 Combining approaches -- 2.2 Towards an agenda of BN studies -- 2.3 Methodological considerations for future research -- 3. The contributions in this volume -- 4. Outlook -- References -- Some Cross-linguistic aspects of bare NP distribution -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Doron (2003) -- 3. Brazilian Portuguese -- 4. Modern Hebrew -- 5. Accounting for bare singulars in Modern Hebrew -- 6. Some conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Bare nominals, bare predicates -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Baker's (2003) syntactic approach -- 1.2 Chierchia's (1998) Neocarlsonian approach -- 1.3 Partee's (1987) Type shifting operations -- 2. Properties of kinds -- 3. Properties of individual objects -- 4. Gradable properties -- 5. Capacities -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Spanish bare plurals and topicalization -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Towards a uniform approach to BPLs. -- 2.1 BPLs as property denotations -- 2.2 BPLs and information structure -- 3. Topicalized BPLs. -- 3.1 The position of topicalized BPLs. -- 3.2. Topicalized BPLs, indefinite argument drop, and nominal ellipsis -- 3.3 Split topicalization -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Information structure and the distribution of Spanish bare plurals -- 1. The naked noun constraint -- 2. The role of information structure -- 2.1 Topics and bare nouns -- 2.1.1 The constraint on preverbal subjects is derived from topicality -- 2.1.2 Two problems with topicality -- 2.2 Two kinds of topics -- 2.2.1 Preverbal subjects and dislocated phrases.

2.2.2 The licensing of bare nouns as dislocated topics -- 2.2.3 Internal and external topics impose different constraints -- 2.2.4 Two proposals on subjects and topics -- 2.2.5 The contrastive value of external topics -- 2.3 Non-referential expressions as topics -- 2.4 Bare plurals and focus -- 2.5 Information structure and the grammar of bare plurals -- 2.5.1 Semantic incorporation of internal and external arguments -- 2.5.2 Why narrow focus is relevant -- 2.5.3 Preverbal subjects of unaccusative verbs -- 3. Conclusions -- References -- Bare nominals in American-Spanish headlines -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Objectives and corpus -- 3. Data: Geographical differences -- 4. The possibility of English influence -- 5. Discourse explanation -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Bare singular arguments in Brazilian Portuguese Perfectivity, telicity, and kinds -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bare singulars in episodic predicates -- 2.1 The subject position -- 2.2 Bare objects of perfective predicates -- 3. Explaining the data: The role of kinds -- 3.1 Kinds as arguments of episodic predicates -- 3.2 Explanation: The subject position -- 3.3 The bare object -- 4. Some consequences of the bare singular as kind-denoting -- 4.1 Durativity and homogeneity -- 4.2 Telicity -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The distribution of specific and definite bare nominals in Brazilian Portuguese -- 1. Introduction: Specific and definite bare nominals? -- 2. The data: Facing theoretical and methodological problems -- 2.1 Bare nominals in Brazilian Portuguese -- 2.2 The need for corpus studies and its problems -- 3. Corpora and distribution -- 3.1 The theoretical status of performance data -- 3.2 (In)definiteness, specificity and reference -- 3.3 The open corpus: BSs in spoken vs. written language -- 3.3.1 Materials -- 3.3.2 Results.

3.4 The experimental "closed" corpus -- 3.4.1 Material -- 3.4.2 Results -- 4. Theoretical implications: BrP BSs and information structure -- 4.1 Revisiting Müller (2002): A critical survey -- 4.2 Reconsidering the role of information structure -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Used materials -- References -- 'Bare quantifiers' and topics in Italian -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Topics and their properties -- 2. Topics and Bare quantifiers -- 2.1 Cinque (1990) -- 2.2 Bare quantifiers vs. Quantified DPs and referentiality -- 3. Free-choiceness -- 4. Bare indefinites as Topics -- 4.1 The case of qualcosa/qualcuno -- 4.2 The case of tutto 'everything' and molto 'many' -- 4.2.1 Topical "tutto" -- 4.2.2. Topical "molto" -- 5. Indefinites, Topicalization and Grammaticalization -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Coordinated bare nouns in French, Spanish and European Portuguese -- 1. The challenge of coordinated bare NPs -- 2. Previous research -- 3. Bare coordination in Romance languages -- 3.1 French -- 3.2 Spanish -- 3.3 Portuguese -- 3.4 Syntactic & referential conclusions from the data -- 4. Semantics of CBNs -- 4.1 The notion of stereotypicality of bare nouns -- 4.2 Shared semantic frame -- 4.3 Collective-like connection and set intersection -- 5. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Corpora -- Literature -- Bare vs. non-bare nouns -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Bulgarian nominal system -- 2.1 The expression of definiteness vs. indefiniteness -- 2.2 The status of two indefinites -- 2.3 Properties and environments of indefinite NPs -- 2.3.1 Non-referential bare indefinites -- 2.3.2 Non-specific bare indefinites -- 2.3.3 Indefinite edin-NPs -- 3. Evidence for the semantic difference between bare NPs and edin-NPs -- 3.1 Test 1: Scopal behaviour -- 3.2 Test 2: Different wh-words -- 3.3 Test 3: Discourse anaphora -- 3.4 Test 4: Evidence from clitic doubling.

3.5 Test 5: Edin-addition in predicative NPs -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 Type vs. token distinction -- 4.2 Discourse salience -- 4.3 Animacy and individuation -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Index.