This paper explores the countability of deverbal bare singular nouns in Brazilian Portuguese, such as chute ‘kick’ in Maria deu mais chute ‘Maria did more kicking/Maria did more kicks’. More specifically, it investigates whether the aspectual information of a verb impacts the count (cardinal interpretation) or mass (volume/intensity interpretation) interpretation of a bare singular noun. Based on the results of a forced choice task replicating Barner, Wagner, and Snedeker (2008) for English, we show that deverbal bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese allow count and mass interpretations, depending on the aspectual features of the verbs they are derived from. Punctual events were more likely than durative events to be associated with a cardinal/count response. These results corroborate previous analysis of bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese, whereby these nouns allow both count and mass interpretations (Pires de Oliveira & Rothstein 2011b).

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持续性/守时性方面的信息会影响巴西葡萄牙语中名词性名词的可数性

本文探讨了巴西葡萄牙语中的形容词裸单数名词的可数性，例如Maria deu mais滑道中的滑道“ kick”（“ Maria做更多踢/ Maria做更多踢”）。更具体地说，它研究动词的方面信息是否影响裸奇异名词的计数（基数解释）或质量（体积/强度解释）。根据将Barner，Wagner和Snedeker（2008）复制为英语的强制选择任务的结果，我们显示巴西葡萄牙语中的形容词裸奇数允许计数和质量解释，具体取决于它们所衍生的动词的方面特征。与持续时间事件相比，准时事件与基本事件/计数反应相关的可能性更高。这些结果证实了先前对巴西葡萄牙语中的裸奇单数的分析，