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What’s hidden below definiteness and genitive: on indefinite partitive articles in Romance [PDF]

Linguistics
In French, Italian, and other Romance languages indefinite nominal phrases can be introduced by what appears to be the conflation of a genitive preposition and a definite article, the so-called “indefinite partitive articles” (e.g., Fr.
Pinzin Francesco
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"Algún" indefinite is not bound by adverbs of quantification

Isogloss, 2021
Some indefinites cannot be bound by adverbs of quantification or the generic operator. I argue that this datum follows from the internal syntax of indefinites: only those indefinites consisting of a minimal structure can be bound, bigger indefinites ...
Luis López
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The syntax and semantics of approximate indefinites in Spanish [PDF]

DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2020
In Spanish, combining an indefinite plural article and a cardinal number leads to an approximative interpretation similar to that provided by approximators like ‘approximately’.
Fernando Martín Carranza, Carlos Muñoz Pérez   +1 more
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'Uno que otro': A distributive indefinite in Mexican Spanish

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2023
In Mexican Spanish, the indefinite quantifier “uno que otro” is used to refer to low cardinalities of entities separated in space or time. Even though they have a strictly singular form, noun phrases with “uno que otro” always refer to more than one ...
José Fernando Chapa Barrios, Violeta Vazquez Rojas   +1 more
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An indefinite maze: on the distribution of partitives and bare nouns in the Northern Italian dialects

Isogloss, 2022
Some Romance languages, like Spanish, encode narrow scope indefinite objects without any over determiner (Bare Nouns; como pan ‘I eat bread’), while others, like French, require the insertion of an overt prenominal marker, labeled Partitive Article (PA;
Francesco Pinzin, Cecilia Poletto
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Indefinites, negation and Jespersen's Cycle in the history of Low German [PDF]

, 2013
This paper offers a formal account of the diachronic changes in the interaction between indefinites in the scope of negation and the expression of sentential negation in the history of Low German.
Breitbarth, Anne
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A bidirectional Optimality Theoretic analysis of multiple negative indefinites in Afrikaans

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2014
In the literature on negation, Afrikaans is generally categorised as a negative concord language. Unlike most other negative concord languages though, utterances containing multiple indefinites in the scope of negation are typically produced with a ...
Huddlestone, Kate, de Swart, Henriëtte
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Extending the typology: negative concord and connective negation in Persian

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2022
This paper aims to advance the general understanding of negative concord (as in English We don’t need no education) and connective negation (as in English neither … nor’) through an analysis of Persian.
Johan van der Auwera, Sepideh Koohkan
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Discursive properties of the indefinites and bare singular in Brazilian Portuguese: a production study

Revista Linguística, 2018
This paper investigates the referential properties of bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese. The literature on referentiality on Spanish has claimed that indefinites, but not bare nouns, can establish and introduce new referents in the discourse.
Ohanna Teixeira Barchi Severo
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Number-neutral indefinite objects in Brazilian Portuguese as a case of semantic incorporation

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2022
This paper provides empirical evidence for a verb-noun construction in Brazilian Portuguese, which has not yet been analyzed in the linguistic literature.
Albert Wall
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