Neuters', Mass-Nouns, and the Ablative in Romance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2878262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert A Hall (0009-0007-8376-5875, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 480 |
| Publication date | 1968-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/411715 |
| OpenAlex | W2332218100 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 5 |
In Asturian and Central-South Italian dialects, there is a category of collective nouns, pronouns, and definite articles which is usually called ‘neutro de materia’ and considered a continuation of the Latin neuter. This category is not a neuter in the traditional sense of the term, but represents a grammatical category hitherto unrecognized in Romance, the mass-noun, and is to be traced to an (also unsuspected) survival of the Latin ablative, through its use in partitive constructions, first with and then without dē ‘of’
Ablative case · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Noun · Proper noun · Radiology · Romance · Romance languages · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Medicine · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 2025 (57) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |