The Status of de in Romance Indefinites, Partitives and Pseudopartitives

M.Teresa Espinal; Sonia Cyrino

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The Status of de in Romance Indefinites, Partitives and Pseudopartitives

M.Teresa Espinal^*, Sonia Cyrino

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This paper focuses on the status of de in Romance indefinites, partitives and pseudopartitives. It argues that there is neither a ‘partitive article’ nor a ‘partitive preposition’ in syntax. De in Romance indefinites is the overt Spell-Out of an abstract operator de that cancels the definiteness of articles and is responsible for indefiniteness. De in Romance partitives is the overt Spell-Out of a relator head that takes a definite DP as complement and a QP in the specifier position. Finally, pseudopartitivity is shown to have crosslinguistic parallels with indefinites, and it is derived by postulating a mono-projectional analysis in which a semilexical N selects for a de-phrase, in exactly the same way that quantifiers and cardinals select for indefinite de-phrases.

Idioma original	Anglès
Pàgines (de-a)	167-211
Nombre de pàgines	45
Revista	Studia linguistica : a journal of general linguistics
Volum	76
Número	1
Data online anticipada	23 de nov. 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/stul.12184
Estat de la publicació	Publicada - d’abr. 2022

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Espinal, M. T. (PI), Villalba Nicolas, F. X. (Co-Investigador/a Principal), Brunetti, L. (Col.laborador/a), Cyrino, S. (Col.laborador/a), Etxeberria Otaegui, U. (Col.laborador/a), Olga Borik (Col.laborador/a), Planas-Morales, S. (Investigador/a), Tubau Muntaña, S. (Investigador/a) & Tsiakmakis , E. (Col.laborador/a)
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO), Fons Europeu de Desenvolupament Regional (FEDER), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
1/01/18 → 30/09/21
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