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Bare plural

SEMANTICS: a plural noun phrase without an overt determiner. EXAMPLE: cats, or pretty girls with blond hair are bare plurals. Bare plurals can have a generic interpretation (in (i)) or an existential interpretation (in (ii)):

(i)  Cats are intelligent
(ii) Cats ruined my garden

LIT. Carlson, G. (1977)