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Bare plural refers to a plural noun phrase without an overt determiner.
Examples
Cats, or pretty girls with blond hair are bare plurals.
Comments
Bare plurals can have a generic interpretation (in (i)) or an existential interpretation (in (ii)):
*(i) Cats are intelligent. *(ii) Cats ruined my garden.
Link
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics
Reference
Carlson, G. 1977. Reference to kinds in English. Ph.D. diss., University of Amherst.
