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What’s hidden below definiteness and genitive: on indefinite partitive articles in Romance [PDF]
LinguisticsIn 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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Functional Entities —and that ain’t the half of it! [PDF]
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2004 Like many other languages, Spanish may specify fractionary nouns with definite articles (cf. la mitad). This fact seems to violate the presupposition of uniqueness generally assigned to the definite article, as no fraction may exist without another one ...
Almerindo E. Ojeda
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Isogloss, 2023 In this paper, we focus on partitive articles (PAs), i.e., determiners which, generally, have an indefinite interpretation, and on one of their potential correlates, i.e., invariable de, in Francoprovençal, a non-standardized, highly endangered Gallo ...
Tabea Ihsane +2 more
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Unexpected Partitive Articles in Francoprovençal* [PDF]
Studia Linguistica, 2021 AbstractThis contribution seeks to add to our knowledge on ‘partitive articles’ (like the French elementduinJe bois du vin, ‘I drink (some) wine’) in a highly endangered language spoken in France, Switzerland and Italy, namely Francoprovençal. Based on recent fieldwork data (2017) from the Aosta Valley and data from the ALAVAL atlas project, we will ...
Stark, Elisabeth, Davatz, Jan Pavel
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Partitive Articles and Indefinites, Micro and Macrovariation [PDF]
Studia Linguistica, 2021 AbstractThis introductory paper provides an overview of the main phenomena investigated in this Special Issue, such as the relation between the encoding of indefinites and the presence of genitive and definite markers, the relation between partitivity and indefiniteness and the distribution of these phenomena in minority, or “micro”, varieties – such ...
Francesco Pinzin, Cecilia Poletto
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Indefinite determiners in two northern Italian dialects
Isogloss, 2022 Italian and Italian dialects express indefiniteness in different ways, among which with a null determiner (ZERO) like all other Romance languages, but also with the definite article (ART) unlike what is found in Romance.
Gianluca E. Lebani, Giuliana Giusti
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Correlations between Case and the D-system and the interpretability of Case
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2021 A correlation between articles and Case has long been noted based on diachronic evidence. Beyond articles, evidence supports that this correlation extends further to clitics and the determiner system (the D-system) at large. The D-system in turn supports
Txuss Martin +2 more
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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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Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2020 Some Features in the Expression of the Noun Determination. Comparison Between Five Romance Languages. In this article we would like to compare the noun determination in five Romance languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian).
Gorana BIKIĆ-CARIĆ
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Investigations into children's acquisition of the partitive structure
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2008 Recent literature suggests that children’s acquisition of DP is a process of gradual feature acquisition (Roeper 2006). This study looks at the acquisition of DP’s barrier feature from the perspective of the acquisition of the syntax of the English ...
Helen Stickney
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