Gender, number, and indefinite articles: About the 'typological inconsistency' of Italian

Stark, Elisabeth

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“…In Old Spanish, both leísmo and genuine partitive pronouns are documented, though partitive pronouns are relatively infrequent. This paper corroborates previous findings regarding the distribution of pa and bare nouns in Romance languages (Körner 1981;Stark 2007), while adding empirical breath based on a representative family-wide sample and several related phenomena. The historical analysis of Spanish and French shows that prominence-conditioned clitics grammaticalized before pa and dom.…”

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“…The phylogenetic distribution of bare and partitive deserves careful scrutiny under a family-level comparison of all genealogical sub-branches of Romance. schurr Additionally, the syntactic distribution of the pa across grammatical relations and clause types remains subject to debate, as does the range of noun classes with which the pa is obligatory (e.g., substance-denoting, plural countable nouns) (Luraghi 2012;Stark 2007).…”

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“…The differentially a-marked variant of which yields a specific reading(Stark 2007). 4 The exact semantic analysis of bare/partitive pairs as in (1) is not at issue.…”

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“…The availability and distribution of "partitive articles" varies in regional varieties of Italian and Italo-Romance languages (see Giusti, this volume, for a detailed account). For a discussion on the problematic position of Italian in the bare/partitive typology, seeStark (2007).Hagay Schurr -9789004437500 Downloaded from Brill.com11/06/2020 05:05:47PM via free access…”

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Bound To Be? Bare and Partitive-Marked Noun Phrases in Romance Languages and the Emergence of Prominence-Conditioned Patterns

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Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article

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Section: Jesús Jesussupporting

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“…The differentially a-marked variant of which yields a specific reading(Stark 2007). 4 The exact semantic analysis of bare/partitive pairs as in (1) is not at issue.…”

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“…One question that immediately presents itself is how OF D-drop compares with D-drop in other languages, and in particular with the diachrony of D-drop in Romance. A possible next step would be to determine if the factors identified in the present study interact in a similar fashion in other Romance languages (Stark 2007(Stark , 2008. In this regard, it is relevant that ever since Postal (1969), it is widely recognized that determiners and pronouns belong to the same category (Longobardi 1994(Longobardi , 2001Déchaine and Wiltschko 2002;Kiparsky 2008).…”

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The trajectory of φ-features on Old French D and n

Déchaine

Dufresne

2018

Can. J. Linguist.

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Old French (OF) determiners (D), which are optional, show a three-way split between definite (def), indefinite(indf), and expletive(expl) D. We develop a nano-syntactic analysis of these three paradigms, according to which the nominal spine is associated with a series of functional heads that include Number, Gender, D, and Kase. We test the predictions of the formal analysis with a quantitative analysis of corpus data from two 12th century Anglo-Norman texts – Le voyage de saint Brendan (B) and Lais de Marie de France (MdF) – which indicates that over a 60-year span, there are changes in the distribution of D. This presents itself in three ways. First, a decline in expletive D in MdF correlates with an increase in the use of D with masculine (m) non-count nouns (nNON-CT) Second, while B lacks an overt indefinite plural (pl) D, MdF has one in the form of des. Third, with count nouns(nCT), while feminine (f) nouns favour the absence of determiners in B, there is no gender effect in MdF. While the first two changes are predicted by the formal analysis, the third is not. More broadly, the results of our quantitative study provide a more nuanced picture of the factors that govern the distribution of D in OF: they confirm that – relative to conditioning the absence of D (D-drop) – definiteness, grammatical function, and number are stable factors, gender is not a stable factor, and word order does not play a significant role.

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The emergence of the grammatical paradigm of nominal determiners in French and in Romance: Comparative and diachronic perspectives

Carlier

Lamiroy

2018

Can. J. Linguist.

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This article is devoted to the emergence of a new paradigm in French and Romance: that of nominal determiners. Latin had no articles, and although possessives, demonstratives and indefinites could determine the noun, they could also be used as pronouns or adjectives, so that the morpho-syntactic category of nominal determiners did not exist as such. We first examine the diachronic evolution of French, where a far-reaching grammaticalization process took place. Syntagmatically, all determiners end up in the NP-initial position as the only available syntactic slot, contributing to the highly configurational NP pattern characteristic of Modern French. From a paradigmatic viewpoint, determiners no longer correspond to a syntactic function, but to a separate morpho-syntactic category. We also evaluate to what extent this evolution took place in two other Romance languages, Italian and Spanish. Through the analysis of this particular evolution, based on parallel corpora consisting of a Latin text and its translations in Old, Middle, and Modern French on the one hand, and in Spanish and Italian on the other, our study also provides evidence for more general mechanisms, analogy in particular, at work in the creation of new paradigms.Keywords: Analogy, French, Romance, Grammaticalization, Nominal Determiner Part of this research has been carried out in the framework of the ANR-DFG project PaLaFra (ANR-14-FRAL-0006). We are grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their detailed and useful comments on the submitted version. All remaining errors are of course ours. RésuméCet article est consacré à l'émergence d'un nouveau paradigme grammatical en français et dans les langues romanes, celui de la détermination nominale. Le latin n'avait pas d'articles, alors que les possessifs, les démonstratifs et les indéfinis, tout en pouvant servir de déterminant nominal, étaient par ailleurs utilisés comme pronom ou adjectif. La détermination nominale en tant que catégorie morpho-syntaxique autonome était donc inexistante. Nous examinons d'abord comment a eu lieu, au cours de l'évolution diachronique du français, un processus important de grammaticalisation. Syntagmatiquement, tous les déterminants se retrouvent dans la position initiale du NP comme seule position syntaxique disponible, ce qui contribue au caractère hautement configurationnel du constituant nominal du français moderne. D'un point de vue paradigmatique, les déterminants ne correspondent plus à une fonction syntaxique, mais à une catégorie morphosyntaxique distincte. Nous évaluons ensuite dans quelle mesure cette évolution a eu lieu dans deux autres langues romanes, l'italien et l'espagnol. Notre analyse est basée sur des corpus parallèles comprenant un texte latin et ses traductions en français médiéval et moderne, d'une part, et ses traductions en espagnol et en italien, d'autre part. Elle met en évidence des mécanismes et des motivations plus généraux, notamment l'analogie, qui sont à l'oeuvre dans la création de nouveaux paradigmes.

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Gender, number, and indefinite articles: About the 'typological inconsistency' of Italian

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Bound To Be? Bare and Partitive-Marked Noun Phrases in Romance Languages and the Emergence of Prominence-Conditioned Patterns

Bound To Be? Bare and Partitive-Marked Noun Phrases in Romance Languages and the Emergence of Prominence-Conditioned Patterns

The trajectory of φ-features on Old French D and n

The emergence of the grammatical paradigm of nominal determiners in French and in Romance: Comparative and diachronic perspectives

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