Michael C. Stern
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael C. Stern is involved.
Article
2022 Definiteness and argument position in the interpretation of bare nouns: From L1 Mandarin to L2 English Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond, Leal, Tania, Elena Shimanskaya and Casilde A. Isabelli (eds.), pp. 67–92 | Chapter
We investigate the hypothesis that nouns in article-less languages are unambiguous with respect to definiteness, an unambiguity that is evident in the interpretation of ungrammatical “bare” or article-less singular nouns in L2 English. Specifically, we tested the hypothesis that bare nouns in L2… read more
