The Status of De in Romance Indefinites, Partitives and Pseudopartitives*
Espinal, M. Teresa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Filologia Catalana)
Cyrino, Sonia (University of Campinas. Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem)

Date:	2021
Abstract:	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.
Grants:	Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-634 Agencia Estatal de Investigación FFI2017-82547-P Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad PID2020-112801GB-100
Note:	Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
Note:	We acknowledge the financial support from Spanish Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, grants FFI2017-82547-P and PID2020-112801GB-100, Generalitat de Catalunya, grant 2017SGR634, and ICREA Academia 2015 for the first author, and from The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Grant 304.574/2017-1 for the second author. We thank the audience of the Workshop (Frankfurt 2019), two anonymous reviewers of as well as the editors of this special volume for their comments, which helped us to improve the paper. All errors that remain are our responsibility. Around Partitive Articles Studia Linguistica
Note:	Altres ajuts: CNPq/304.574/2017-1
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Published in:	Studia Linguistica, 2021 , ISSN 1467-9582

DOI: 10.1111/stul.12184

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