Analyse linguistique et approches de l'oral: Recueil d'etudes offert en hommage a Claire Blanche-Benveniste

Blanche-Benveniste, Claire; Bilger, Mireille; Eynde, Kathleen Van den; Gadet, Françoise

doi:10.2307/417119

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“…Ihsane 2008Ihsane , 2013 Morphology and diachrony (the PA stems historically from a fusion of the preposition de plus demonstrative/definite article, see Carlier 2007) indicate a paradigm duSG -desPL (cf. Anscombre 1996, Galmiche 1986, Kupferman 1998Cardinaletti & Giusti 2016 for Italian dei). However, important differences between singular and plural PAs in their semantics (mass vs. count; impossibility vs. possibility to have a specific interpretation, respectively: cf.…”

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Francoprovençal: a spatial analysis of ‘partitive articles’ and potential correlates in Swiss and Italian varieties

Ihsane

Winistörfer²,

Stark³

2023

isogloss

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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-Romance language (cf. Zulato, Kasstan & Nagy 2018), and show the fine-grained spatial distribution of these elements in the Swiss and Aosta Valley (Italy) varieties. Presenting several maps based on fieldwork data from Valais (Switzerland) and the Aosta Valley (Italy), we demonstrate that the spatial distribution of PAs and de is more complex than reported in the literature: we complement the basic subdivision of Francoprovençal into two types, Francoprovençal A and B (cf. Kristol 2014, 2016), with a more nuanced picture, in which the morphosyntactic features of PAs play a crucial role: in Francoprovençal A, the presence of PAs depends on the syntactic context whereas, in Francoprovençal B, their presence is limited mainly to two areas, in which singular and plural PAs do not occur together (one area only has singular PAs whereas the other one only has plural PAs). We also show that there is no correlation between phonologically overt plural marking on nouns and absence of PAs; however, we found a correlation between overt sigmatic number marking on nouns and absence of PAs.

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