Tabea Ihsane
Biographic Data
| ID | 1569409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tabea Ihsane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tabea |
| FAMILY NAME | Ihsane |
| SIGNATURE | IHSANE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6261-1283 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On the rescuing of some -indefinites
The experimentally backed and hitherto overlooked empirical observation of the paper is a contrast among indefinite Positive Polarity Items regarding their possibility of being rescued under certain operators with different rescuing potential. If / surprise / only / don’t think can rescue some -indefinites, suspending their anti-licensing (i.e., their impossibility to occur in the scope of a clausemate negation): while some -pronouns (in English …
Indefinite determiners: Why DE can be enough – Insights from Francoprovençal
The question we tackle in this paper is why some indefinite nominal expressions are licit in Romance despite the absence of number marking on the determiner and on the noun, an unexpected option in Romance languages, which are number marking languages (Gil 1987). We focus on the invariable DE found in some Francoprovençal varieties and compare it with partitive articles (PAs) in French/Francoprovençal. We propose that invariable DE and the DE com…
Preverbal Subjects with a Partitive Article: A Comparison Between Aosta Valley Francoprovençal and French
In this paper, we focus on two constructions that allow preverbal subjects headed by a so‐called partitive article in French, that is, sentences with a stage‐level predicate and generic emphatic constructions. The aim is to explain why their counterparts were generally not accepted by speakers of Francoprovençal, an endangered and understudied Gallo‐Romance language, in a translation task carried out in fieldwork in the Aosta Valley in Italy (Ihs…
Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article
ConclusionThis volume focuses on different aspects of the distribution, semantics, and internal structure of nominal constituents with a "partitive article" in its indefinite interpretation and of the potentially corresponding bare nouns.It further deals with diachronic issues, such as grammaticalization and evolution in the use of "partitive articles".The outcome is a snapshot of current research into "partitive articles" and the way they relate…
Convergence and divergence in the expression of partitivity in French, Dutch, and German
This paper focusses on the so-called partitive pronoun in French and Dutch, and the corresponding data in German, a language which is assumed not to have partitive pronouns in its standard, in contrast to certain dialectal varieties. Taking the diverse uses of the French partitive pronoun en as a starting point, we investigate the corresponding constructions in Dutch and German. The ultimate aim of the paper is to develop an analysis accounting f…
Introduction: Shades of partitivity: Formal and areal properties
At the heart of this special issue are partitive elements (i. e., partitive articles, partitive pronouns, and partitive case markers) which can express different "shades" of partitivity, namely true partitivity, pseudopartitivity, or indefiniteness, that is, the absence of a part-whole relation in the meaning, in contrast to (pseudo)partitivity. Since these partitive elements express (at least) two such notions, as they can be truly partitive but…
A New Outlook of Complementizers
This paper investigates clausal complements of factive and non-factive predicates in English, with particular focus on the distribution of overt and null that complementizers. Most studies on this topic assume that both overt and null that clauses have the same underlying structure and predict that these clauses show (nearly) the same syntactic distribution, contrary to fact: while the complementizer that is freely dropped in non-factive clausal …
Introducing the Special Issue: Clausal and Nominal Complements in Monolingual and Bilingual Grammars
To introduce this Special Issue entitled Clausal and Nominal Complements in Monolingual and Bilingual Grammars, we begin by explaining what originally motivated this Special Issue
Revisiting the loss of verb movement in the history of English
EnPronominalization in French and the Structure of Nominal Expressions
In this paper, I tackle the question of the syntactic source of the cliticenin French, debated in the literature since the late 1970s (Kayne 1977 and Milner 1978). The aim is not only to find out whatenpronominalizes but also to provide an analysis of nominal expressions able to account for (i) the quantitative, partitive, and genitive examples discussed by Milner (1978) and for (ii) the fact thatdu/desNPs can be replaced byenin some contexts onl…
A typology of possessive modifiers
EnPronominalization in French and the Structure of Nominal Expressions
In this paper, I tackle the question of the syntactic source of the cliticenin French, debated in the literature since the late 1970s (Kayne 1977 and Milner 1978). The aim is not only to find out whatenpronominalizes but also to provide an analysis of nominal expressions able to account for (i) the quantitative, partitive, and genitive examples discussed by Milner (1978) and for (ii) the fact thatdu/desNPs can be replaced byenin some contexts onl…
Introduction: Shades of partitivity: Formal and areal properties
At the heart of this special issue are partitive elements (i. e., partitive articles, partitive pronouns, and partitive case markers) which can express different "shades" of partitivity, namely true partitivity, pseudopartitivity, or indefiniteness, that is, the absence of a part-whole relation in the meaning, in contrast to (pseudo)partitivity. Since these partitive elements express (at least) two such notions, as they can be truly partitive but…
Convergence and divergence in the expression of partitivity in French, Dutch, and German
This paper focusses on the so-called partitive pronoun in French and Dutch, and the corresponding data in German, a language which is assumed not to have partitive pronouns in its standard, in contrast to certain dialectal varieties. Taking the diverse uses of the French partitive pronoun en as a starting point, we investigate the corresponding constructions in Dutch and German. The ultimate aim of the paper is to develop an analysis accounting f…
A New Outlook of Complementizers
This paper investigates clausal complements of factive and non-factive predicates in English, with particular focus on the distribution of overt and null that complementizers. Most studies on this topic assume that both overt and null that clauses have the same underlying structure and predict that these clauses show (nearly) the same syntactic distribution, contrary to fact: while the complementizer that is freely dropped in non-factive clausal …
Revisiting the loss of verb movement in the history of English
A typology of possessive modifiers
EnPronominalization in French and the Structure of Nominal Expressions
In this paper, I tackle the question of the syntactic source of the cliticenin French, debated in the literature since the late 1970s (Kayne 1977 and Milner 1978). The aim is not only to find out whatenpronominalizes but also to provide an analysis of nominal expressions able to account for (i) the quantitative, partitive, and genitive examples discussed by Milner (1978) and for (ii) the fact thatdu/desNPs can be replaced byenin some contexts onl…
Revisiting the loss of verb movement in the history of English
A New Outlook of Complementizers
This paper investigates clausal complements of factive and non-factive predicates in English, with particular focus on the distribution of overt and null that complementizers. Most studies on this topic assume that both overt and null that clauses have the same underlying structure and predict that these clauses show (nearly) the same syntactic distribution, contrary to fact: while the complementizer that is freely dropped in non-factive clausal …
Introducing the Special Issue: Clausal and Nominal Complements in Monolingual and Bilingual Grammars
To introduce this Special Issue entitled Clausal and Nominal Complements in Monolingual and Bilingual Grammars, we begin by explaining what originally motivated this Special Issue
Convergence and divergence in the expression of partitivity in French, Dutch, and German
This paper focusses on the so-called partitive pronoun in French and Dutch, and the corresponding data in German, a language which is assumed not to have partitive pronouns in its standard, in contrast to certain dialectal varieties. Taking the diverse uses of the French partitive pronoun en as a starting point, we investigate the corresponding constructions in Dutch and German. The ultimate aim of the paper is to develop an analysis accounting f…
Introduction: Shades of partitivity: Formal and areal properties
At the heart of this special issue are partitive elements (i. e., partitive articles, partitive pronouns, and partitive case markers) which can express different "shades" of partitivity, namely true partitivity, pseudopartitivity, or indefiniteness, that is, the absence of a part-whole relation in the meaning, in contrast to (pseudo)partitivity. Since these partitive elements express (at least) two such notions, as they can be truly partitive but…
Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article
ConclusionThis volume focuses on different aspects of the distribution, semantics, and internal structure of nominal constituents with a "partitive article" in its indefinite interpretation and of the potentially corresponding bare nouns.It further deals with diachronic issues, such as grammaticalization and evolution in the use of "partitive articles".The outcome is a snapshot of current research into "partitive articles" and the way they relate…
Preverbal Subjects with a Partitive Article: A Comparison Between Aosta Valley Francoprovençal and French
In this paper, we focus on two constructions that allow preverbal subjects headed by a so‐called partitive article in French, that is, sentences with a stage‐level predicate and generic emphatic constructions. The aim is to explain why their counterparts were generally not accepted by speakers of Francoprovençal, an endangered and understudied Gallo‐Romance language, in a translation task carried out in fieldwork in the Aosta Valley in Italy (Ihs…
On the rescuing of some -indefinites
The experimentally backed and hitherto overlooked empirical observation of the paper is a contrast among indefinite Positive Polarity Items regarding their possibility of being rescued under certain operators with different rescuing potential. If / surprise / only / don’t think can rescue some -indefinites, suspending their anti-licensing (i.e., their impossibility to occur in the scope of a clausemate negation): while some -pronouns (in English …
Indefinite determiners: Why DE can be enough – Insights from Francoprovençal
The question we tackle in this paper is why some indefinite nominal expressions are licit in Romance despite the absence of number marking on the determiner and on the noun, an unexpected option in Romance languages, which are number marking languages (Gil 1987). We focus on the invariable DE found in some Francoprovençal varieties and compare it with partitive articles (PAs) in French/Francoprovençal. We propose that invariable DE and the DE com…
Computer Science (10 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (3 works)