Abstract
An English noun phrase whose head noun is a count noun usually occurs with a determiner. Examples of such a noun phrase are found in the subject position of each of these sentences:
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a.
The desk is made of wood.
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b.
A friend just arrived from Montevideo.
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c.
This cup is fragile.
Such noun phrases in the singular are not permitted to appear without a determiner.
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Gillon, B.S. (1990). Bare Plurals as Plural Indefinite Noun Phrases. In: Kyburg, H.E., Loui, R.P., Carlson, G.N. (eds) Knowledge Representation and Defeasible Reasoning. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0553-5_6
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