%0 Journal Article
%T O singular nu denota esp¨¦cie: uma investiga£¿£¿o emp¨ªrica
%A Oliveira
%A Roberta Pires de
%A Silva
%A Josa Coelho da
%A Bressane
%A Mariana Rublescki Silveira
%J DELTA: Documenta£¿£¿o de Estudos em Ling¨¹¨ªstica Te¨®rica e Aplicada
%D 2010
%I Pontif¨ªcia Universidade Cat¨®lica de S?o Paulo - PUC-SP
%R 10.1590/S0102-44502010000100005
%X the paper presents the results of an investigation into oral and written language corpora and of a psycholinguistic experiment on the grammaticality of generic sentences in brazilian portuguese with bare singular. there is no consensus in the literature concerning the grammaticality of these sentences (munn & schmitt (1999, 2005) vs. m¨¹ller (2000, 2002, 2003)). consequently, there is disagreement about the denotation of bare singulars: for some authors they denote species (munn & schmitt), for others, they are indefinites (m¨¹ller). our investigation shows that there are occurrences of bare singular in kind denoting sentences in the corpora, and that at least for some dialects they are grammatical; giving support to munn & schmitt' approach.
%K bare singular
%K kind
%K semantics
%K empirical evidence
%K psycholinguistic experiment.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-44502010000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en