The international cooperation research program between Brazil and France, CAPES/COFECUB, entitled “Bare Nouns in Brazilian Portuguese: the Syntax-Semantics Interface” (2009), coordinated by Roberta Pires de Oliveira (UFSC/CNPq) and Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS-LLF, Paris 7), aims at a deep understanding of the syntax and semantics of bare noun phrases in natural languages, and of Brazilian Portuguese (BrP henceforth) in particular.