Why “Partitive Articles” Do Not Exist in (Old) Spanish

Gerards, David Paul; Stark, Elisabeth

doi:10.1163/9789004437500_005

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“…The expression of ein with mass nouns is also investigated by Glaser (this issue), namely in a cookbook (cf. Gerards & Stark 2020, 2022 from 1556 written in the East Swabian variety of Augsburg. She analyzes 900 instances of mass nouns with and without the indefinite article, distinguishing an OBJECT and a QUAL-ITY reading.…”

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“…Differently from Brandner (2024) for mass nouns with ein in modern Alemannic, Glaser concludes that ein with mass nouns, at least in the East Swabian cookbook, is not to be regarded as an explicit means of marking partitivity, although there may be a partitive flavor. In the spirit of Gerards and Stark's (2020) analysis of de-nominals in Old Spanish, Glaser proposes that the ein-nominals denote nonspecific weakly referential representative objects.…”

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“…They come with some sort of "generic flavor", although a kind-denoting analysis is not appropriate. The object described is only relevant as a representative of the whole kind, whatKrifka et al (1995) calls a "deferred kind denotation" Gerards and Stark (2020). observe that in Old Spanish recipes there is a third way to express indefiniteness, which is the use of de-nominals, see also.…”

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In the last sixty years, starting with the method of introspection to judge the acceptability of linguistic data, research methods in linguistics have become more varied and more sophisticated. This also holds for studies on partitivity. In this paper various methods are presented that have recently been used in the literature to study variation in the linguistic expression and the use of partitive constructions and partitive elements in Romance, Germanic and some other languages, language varieties and dialects. It is argued that different types of research call for adapted methods. It is shown that the use of different methods may lead to different results, although this is not always the case. The overview presented in this paper reveals that in recent years much progress has been made in the study of variation in partitives.

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A syntactically-driven approach to indefiniteness, specificity and anti-specificity in Romance

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2021

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In this paper we present an original approach to analyze the compositionality of indefinite expressions in Romance by investigating the relevance of their syntactic distribution in relation to their meaning. This approach has the advantage of allowing us to explore the question of how syntactic structure can determine the meaning of different forms of indefiniteness. To that end, we postulate a common derivation for bare plurals, bare mass and de phrases, whereby an abstract operator de is adjoined to definite determiners and shifts entities into property-type expressions. Quantificational specificity is proposed to be derived from a syntactic structure in which weak quantifiers select for indefinite de-phrases, no matter whether de is overt at Spell-Out or not; these quantifiers turn properties into generalized quantifiers. The anti-specificity meaning of some indefinites is derived by adjoining in the syntactic structure an abstract operator alg that encodes the speaker’s epistemic state of ignorance to a quantifier encoded for specificity, and it turns a generalized quantifier into a modified generalized quantifier. The paper also brings some general predictions on how indefiniteness is expressed in Romance, as it provides extensive support from five Romance languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian and Spanish.

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Why “Partitive Articles” Do Not Exist in (Old) Spanish

Cited by 7 publications

References 35 publications

Methods for studying variation in partitives

Methods for studying variation in partitives

A syntactically-driven approach to indefiniteness, specificity and anti-specificity in Romance

Crosslinguistic variation in partitives

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