Abstract This paper discusses the general distribution and interpretation of bare noun phrases (BNPs) in Reunion Creole (RC). To set the required background for this description, it also discusses the count-mass distinction and offers an insight into the determiner system since elements such as prenominal lo and postnominal -la have received rather divergent designations and analyses in the literature. Observations rely on oral data and felicity judgments. We show that RC BNPs can occupy the same positions as noun phrases (NPs) modified by a determiner and that they can be left-dislocated, clefted and topicalized. We provide evidence that, except for some specific contexts, monosyllabic BNPs are not licensed and that the form lo is mandatory to build a grammatical NP out of nouns formed by a unique light syllable.1 We also demonstrate that, in these cases, lo is actually a semantically empty element. BNPs are number-neutral; we argue that existential BNPs are pseudo-incorporated in some cases but that they always have weak reference. BNPs can receive generic and kind readings, as well as an existential and a certain definite interpretation: they are weak definites, i.e. they are semantically, never pragmatically definite (following Lobner 1985, 1998, 2011, 2015).

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留尼汪克里奥尔语中的裸露名词短语的描述

摘要本文讨论了留尼汪克里奥尔语（RC）中裸名词短语（BNP）的一般分布和解释。为设置此描述所需的背景，它还讨论了质量数区分，并提供了对确定器系统的深入了解，因为在文献中，诸如标称lo和标称符号la等元素已经获得了相当不同的名称和分析。观察依靠口头数据和适当性判断。我们显示，RC BNP可以与确定者修饰的名词短语（NP）占据相同的位置，并且可以左移，裂开和局部化。我们提供的证据表明，除了某些特定的上下文外，单音节BNP未被许可，并且形式lo是强制性的，以便根据由唯一轻音节形成的名词来构建语法NP。1我们还证明，在这些情况下，lo实际上是一个语义上为空的元素。BNP与数字无关；我们认为存在的BNP在某些情况下是伪合并的，但它们始终具有较弱的参考力。BNP可以接收一般性和种类性读物，以及存在性和某种确定性的解释：它们是弱性确定性，即它们在语义上而不是在实用上是确定性的（Lobner 1985、1998、2011、2015之后）。