Overview

This volume 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. It further deals with diachronic issues, such as grammaticalization and evolution in the use of partitive articles . The outcome is a snapshot of current research into partitive articles and the way they relate to bare nouns, in a cross-linguistic perspective and on new data: the research covers noteworthy data (fieldwork data and corpora) from Standard languages - like French and Italian, but also German - to dialectal and regional varieties, including endangered ones like Francoprovencal.

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Author:   Tabea Ihsane
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   43
Weight:   0.716kg
ISBN:  

9789004431126

ISBN 10:   9004431128
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   29 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables Glosses and Abbreviations 1 Introduction Tabea Ihsane 2 The Rise and Fall of Partitive Markers in Some Germanic Varieties Thomas Strobel and Elvira Glaser 3 Bound To Be? Bare and Partitive-Marked Noun Phrases in Romance Languages and the Emergence of Prominence-Conditioned Patterns Hagay Schurr 4 Why Partitive Articles Do Not Exist in (Old) Spanish David Paul Gerards and Elisabeth Stark 5 Predicates of Personal Taste and Pancake Sentences in Brazilian Portuguese and French Fabienne Martin, Janayna Carvalho and Artemis Alexiadou 6 Negation, des-Indefinites in French and Bare Nouns across Languages Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin 7 Telicity, Specificity, and Complements with a Plural Partitive Article in French Tabea Ihsane 8 A Protocol for Indefinite Determiners in Italian and Italo-Romance Giuliana Giusti 9 Partitive Articles in Aosta Valley Francoprovencal-Old Questions and New Data Elisabeth Stark and David Paul Gerards Index

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Tabea Ihsane, Ph.D. (2006), University of Geneva, is a lecturer and researcher at the Universities of Geneva and Zurich. She has several publications on partitive elements (pronouns, also L2 joint work; articles), including a monograph (Benjamins 2008, Syntax 2013, Linguistics 2020).

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