Abstract

Kind‐referring expressions in many languages are expressed using bare plurals, and most semantic treatments of kinds depend on semantic plurality. The existence of bare singular kinds in some languages is therefore surprising. This chapter examines two representative cases of bare singulars (Brazilian Portuguese and Russian) that demonstrate different ways in which a morphosyntactic bare singular may be realized semantically. Other instances of bare singulars that do not denote kinds are also discussed, including predicate modifier bare singulars, coordinated bare singulars, and incorporated bare singulars.

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