Book Disentangling bare nouns and nominals introduced by a partitive article IHSANE, Tabea (Ed.) Abstract 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. 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 Francoprovençal. Reference IHSANE, Tabea (Ed.). Disentangling bare nouns and nominals introduced by a partitive article. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020 DOI : 10.1163/9789004437500 Available at: http://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:145202 Disclaimer: layout of this document may differ from the published version. 1 / 1 Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article - 978-90-04-43750-0 Downloaded from PubFactory at 10/29/2020 05:18:23PM via Bibliotheque de Geneve, Bibliotheque de Geneve, University of Geneva and Universite de Geneve Syntax & Semantics Series Editor Keir Moulton (University of Toronto, Canada) Editorial Board Judith Aissen (University of California, Santa Cruz) – Peter Culicover (The Ohio State University) – Elisabet Engdahl (University of Gothenburg) – Janet Fodor (City University of New York) – Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tubingen) – Paul M. Postal (Scarsdale, New York) – Barbara H. Partee (University of Massachusetts) William A. 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Identifiers: LCCN 2020036586 (print) | LCCN 2020036587 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004431126 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004437500 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Grammar, Comparative and general–Partitives. | Grammar, Comparative and general–Nominals. Classification: LCC P299.P39 D57 2020 (print) | LCC P299.P39 (ebook) | DDC 415/.5–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036586 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036587 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill‑typeface. ISSN 0092-4563 ISBN 978-90-04-43112-6 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-43750-0 (e-book) Copyright 2021 by Tabea Ihsane. Published by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag. Koninklijke Brill NV reserves the right to protect this publication against unauthorized use. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. - 978-90-04-43750-0 Downloaded from PubFactory at 10/29/2020 05:18:23PM via Bibliotheque de Geneve, Bibliotheque de Geneve, University of Geneva and Universite de Geneve Contents List of Figures and Tables vii Glosses and Abbreviations ix 1 Introduction 1 Tabea Ihsane 2 The Rise and Fall of Partitive Markers in Some Germanic Varieties 17 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 54 Hagay Schurr 4 Why “Partitive Articles” Do Not Exist in (Old) Spanish 105 David Paul Gerards and Elisabeth Stark 5 Predicates of Personal Taste and Pancake Sentences in Brazilian Portuguese and French 140 Fabienne Martin, Janayna Carvalho and Artemis Alexiadou 6 Negation, des-Indefinites in French and Bare Nouns across Languages 187 Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin 7 Telicity, Specificity, and Complements with a “Partitive Article” in French 227 Tabea Ihsane 8 A Protocol for Indefinite Determiners in Italian and Italo-Romance 262 Giuliana Giusti 9 “Partitive Articles” in Aosta Valley Francoprovençal—Old Questions and New Data 301 Elisabeth Stark and David Paul Gerards Index of Authors 335 Index of Subjects 338 - 978-90-04-43750-0 Downloaded from PubFactory at 10/29/2020 05:18:23PM via Bibliotheque de Geneve, Bibliotheque de Geneve, University of Geneva and Universite de Geneve - 978-90-04-43750-0 Downloaded from PubFactory at 10/29/2020 05:18:23PM via Bibliotheque de Geneve, Bibliotheque de Geneve, University of Geneva and Universite de Geneve Figures and Tables Figures 3.1 Grammaticalization of the “partitive article” in French 61 3.2 Cline of topicality-worthiness/prominence (based on Hill and Tasmowski 2008; Iemmolo 2010) 65 3.3 Co-distribution of “partitive article” and Differential Object Marking per genealogical subgroup in European Romance 74 3.4 Co-distribution of nominal classification strategies and partitive/locative clitics 75 3.5 Relative frequency of third person pronouns per century in Medieval Spanish (oldes) 79 3.6 Relative frequency of third person pronouns per century in Medieval French (bfm 2014) 79 3.7 Distribution of dom patterns per genealogical subgroup 93 3.8 Distribution of partitive article patterns per genealogical subgroup 94 4.1 Internal structure of a count nominal following Borer (2005) 109 4.2 Deriving indefinite nominals in French with internal AGREE operations 112 4.3 Indefinite nominals in French (without probes) with lowering of #° into Div° 113 4.4 Indefinite nominals in French 113 4.5 Deriving indefinite nominals without “partitive article” in Italian with internal agree operations 115 4.6 Deriving indefinite nominals with “partitive article” in Italian with internal agree operations 116 4.7 Indefinite nominals in Spanish 117 4.8 Deriving indefinite nominals in Spanish with internal agree operations 118 9.1 Indefinite nominals in French with lowering of #° into Div° 327 9.2 Indefinite nominals in “Francoprovençal B” with lowering of #° into Div° 328 9.3 Indefinite nominals in “Francoprovençal A” 329 Tables 2.1 Distribution of partitive determiners in Walliser German in terms of number and gender (pretest October 2017) 29 3.1 Predicted co-occurrence patterns of prominence-conditioned cliticization and nominal classifiers 72 - 978-90-04-43750-0 Downloaded from PubFactory at 10/29/2020 05:18:23PM via Bibliotheque de Geneve, Bibliotheque de Geneve, University of Geneva and Universite de Geneve viii figures and tables 3.2 Hypothetically unpredicted cooccurrence patterns of prominence-conditioned cliticization and nominal classifiers 72 3.3 Genealogical coverage of European Romance varieties sample 73 3.4 Co-occurrence of “partitive articles” and Differential Object Marking 75 3.5 Co-occurrence patterns of adnominal classification patterns and adverbial clitics 76 3.6 Clitic and (pro)nominal prominence-conditioned patterns in Medieval Spanish 82 3.7 Clitic and (pro)nominal prominence-conditioned patterns in Medieval French 86 3.8 Distribution of Prominence-Conditioned Adnominal Patterns in European Romance 94 3.9 Distribution of Prominence-Conditioned Clitics in European Romance 95 4.1 Plural marking and mass-count specification of arguments in English, French and Spanish 111 4.2 Italian noun classes 115 4.3 Chronologic distribution of the 275 del-constituents governed by con from Corde and CdE 120 4.4 Distribution of discourse-given and discourse-new con-governed del-constituents from Corde and CdE 121 8.1 Protocol for the distribution of indefinite determiners 287 8.2 Protocol for the grammatical functions of the nominal phrases 287 8.3 Protocol for specialized meanings of indefiniteness 287 8.4 Protocol for sentence types 288 8.5 Illustration of a questionnaire, in English 289 8.6 Combination of features 291 8.7 Results of the questionnaire 292 8.8 Results of pilot studies conducted by MA students 294 9.1 The eleven different contexts tested