@inbook{40aaf6726f874e7dae0ed05147849a00,
title = "Changes of meaning due to changes of articles: A study of singular count nouns in post-verbal position in Italian",
abstract = "'Essi fecero un muro' vs. 'Essi fecero muro': on the surface, these Italian sentences differ only for the presence of an article before the post-verbal noun (PVN) 'muro', literally 'wall'. Despite this minor divergence, their VPs vary greatly in meaning: the former can be rendered as 'They built a wall', the latter as 'They put up resistance'. In Italian, many other nouns behave as 'muro' does above. The meanings come from distinct structures: PVNs preceded by an article are direct objects. Bare PVNs, at times the very same noun, can either pass tests for direct object-hood or show distinct syntactic ties with the verb.",
keywords = "argument structure, bare-noun idioms, direct object-hood, homonymy, zero-article, argument structure, bare-noun idioms, direct object-hood, homonymy, zero-article",
author = "Mirto, {Ignazio Mauro}",
year = "2009",
language = "English",
isbn = "ISSN 1890-4580",
series = "4, 2009",
pages = "254--264",
booktitle = "Arena Romanistica",
}