EnPronominalization in French and the Structure of Nominal Expressions

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ID4238263
AutoresTabea Ihsane (0000-0002-6261-1283, University of Geneva, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume16
Fascículo3
Páginas217-249
Data de publicação2013-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSyntax (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1368-0005 • E-ISSN: 1467-9612
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/synt.12003
OpenAlexW1956894121
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas21

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 only.What I suggest to account for the issues raised byenpronominalization is that quantitative nominals anddu/desNPs have a unified structure that takes notions like number, quantity, and count/mass into account and thatdu/desNPs belong to different categories-that is, that their left periphery is composed differently. The idea is that, in addition to PPs,encan replace different layers of a nominal structure with an articulated left periphery and a fine-grained inflectional domain, in a cartographic spirit. The property underlying all uses ofencould be their lack of referentiality, as observed by Gross (1973) for quantitativeen

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