Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article [PDF]
, 2021 The volume Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article, edited by Tabea Ihsane, focuses on different aspects of the distribution, semantics, and internal structure of nominal constituents with a “partitive article” in its indefinite interpretation and of potentially corresponding bare nouns.
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Exploiting microvariation: How to make the best of your incomplete data [PDF]
, 2018 n this article we discuss the use of big corpuses or databases as a first step for qualitative analysis of linguistic data. We concentrate on ASIt, the Syntactic Atlas of Italy, and take into consideration the different types of dialectal data that can ...
Garzonio, Jacopo, Poletto, Cecilia
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Preverbal Subjects with a Partitive Article: A Comparison Between Aosta Valley Francoprovençal and French* [PDF]
Studia Linguistica, 2021 AbstractIn this paper, we focus on two constructions that allow preverbal subjects headed by a so‐called partitive article in French, that is, sentences with a stage‐level predicate and generic emphatic constructions. The aim is to explain why their counterparts were generally not accepted by speakers of Francoprovençal, an endangered and understudied ...
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Some , And Possibly All, Scalar Inferences Are Not Delayed: Evidence For Immediate Pragmatic Enrichment [PDF]
, 2010 Scalar inferences are commonly generated when a speaker uses a weaker expression rather than a stronger alternative, e.g., John ate some of the apples implies that he did not eat them all. This article describes a visual-world study investigating how and
Agresti +47 more
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On the syntactic derivation of negative sentence adverbials [PDF]
, 1993 We consider recent Government-Binding work on sentential negation, e.g. by Pollock, and evaluate a fundamental assumption made about the syntax of negative clauses.
Rowlett, PA
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Rethinking case marking and case alternation in Estonian [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper, we argue for a view of case marking that does not treat case as the passive realisation of other morpho-syntactic properties of a construction but as independently bringing information to a clause.
Abney +44 more
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Telicity, Specificity, and Complements with a “Partitive Article” in French [PDF]
, 2020 In this paper, we analyze sentences with a des-complement, that is, a complement introduced by a so-called “partitive article” in the plural, and focus on the impact of this complement on the (a)telicity of the eventuality. Although des-complements generally occur in atelic sentences, we discuss some telic situations in which they are possible.
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Indefinite Objects in Micro‐variation. A Cross‐linguistic Analysis of the Distribution of Partitives Articles, Bare Nominals and Definite Determiners in Northern Italy* [PDF]
Studia Linguistica, 2021 AbstractThis contribution focuses on indefinite arguments in object position. We address this topic from the point of view of the crosslinguistic variation within the Romance continuum, especially looking at Northern Italian Dialects (NIDs). The target is to describe the distribution of the different possible realizations of this kind of arguments in ...
Francesco Pinzin, Cecilia Poletto
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Indefiniteness and Specificity in Old Italian Texts [PDF]
, 2001 Object of this study is the marking of nominal indefiniteness in Old Italian, more precisely Old Tuscan texts, in three collections of ...
Stark, Elisabeth
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'Most' vs. 'the most' in languages where 'the more' means 'most' [PDF]
, 2018 This paper focuses on languages in which a superlative interpretation is typically indicated merely by a combination of a definiteness marker with a comparative marker, including French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Greek ('DEF+CMP languages ...
Coppock, Elizabeth, Strand, Linnea
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