Partitives and Indefinites

Phenomena in Italian Varieties

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21398705
AutoresBárbara Baldi (0000-0001-5531-6561, University of Florence, autor correspondente), Benedetta Baldi (Department of Humanities and Philosophy University of Florence Via della Pergola 60 Firenze 50121 Italy), Leonardo M Savoia (0000-0002-5388-5629, Department of Humanities and Philosophy University of Florence Via della Pergola 60 Firenze 50121 Italy, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume76
Fascículo1
Páginas56-100
Data de publicação2022-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoStudia Linguistica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0039-3193 • E-ISSN: 1467-9582
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/stul.12181
OpenAlexW3215967585
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas35

This contribution examines the relation between genitives/ partitives and indefinites in some Italian varieties. A central question concerns the nature of the preposition de/di ( DE ) ‘of’ ( de ), specifically investigated in contexts where it does not introduce the usual possessive or partitive reading: bare partitives/Partitive articles of Italian varieties, negative contexts in which a negative marker select a partitive occurrence of DE of the type mia+DE in Northern Italian dialects and the linker‐like element in Southern Italian dialects. We propose that these structures rely on the lexical content of DE , corresponding to the elementary relation part‐whole and that their particular behaviour can be treated in the terms of pair‐merge in the sense of Chomsky (2020). The indefinites in varieties devoid of the partitive article will be treated in the final section

Linguistics · Merge (version control) · Possessive · Relation (database) · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation