Albert Wall
List of John Benjamins publications in which Albert Wall is
involved.
Titles
Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: An integral approach
Albert Wall
Over the last three decades, Brazilian Portuguese bare nominals have turned into a hot topic in the cross-linguistic study of nominal syntax and semantics. This contribution is the first comprehensive, book-length treatment of the issue, covering both the long-standing discussion about the adequate… read moreNew Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond
Edited by Johannes Kabatek and Albert Wall
This book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of nominal determination. Combining insights from different theoretical backgrounds and extending the empirical coverage of bare noun phenomena, the ten… read moreArticles
Wall, Albert and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta 2016
Exploring and recycling: Topichood and the evolution of Ibero-romance articles Exaptation and Language Change, Norde, Muriel and Freek Van de Velde (eds.), pp. 341–375 | Article This paper discusses the concept of syntactic exaptation (see Traugott 2004) by considering two changes which involve re-use of highly grammaticalized linguistic material and have as yet received little attention. We claim that exaptation is an appropriate label to describe the outcome of both… read more This paper presents and discusses evidence from two corpus studies on Brazilian Portuguese (BrP) bare nominals (BNs) in the light of the overwhelmingly formal syntactic and semantic literature on this topic. It is shown that these approaches have failed to identify a subclass of BrP BNs, namely… read more 
