{"title":"The Rise and Fall of Partitive Markers in Some Germanic Varieties","authors":"Elvira Glaser, Thomas Strobel, Tabea Ihsane","doi":"10.1163/9789004437500_003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004437500_003","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this contribution is a comparative analysis of different “partitive markers” in the noun phrase of several Germanic varieties, with a special focus on areally peripheral non-standard or less standardized West Germanic varieties. Starting with the use of genitive case for the marking of partitive functions in various syntactic contexts in the older stages of German, we then take a closer look at those varieties for which the survival of at least some genitive forms and functions related to partitive meanings is reported in modern times. This is true for some Highest Alemannic dialects in Switzerland (Henzen 1932, 122–124; Szadrowsky 1937, 1940) and for Letzebuergesch, both the dialects and the Koine (Dohmer 2017).1 We would like to emphasize, however, that for Highest Alemannic recent data are lacking completely. While there is some recent research on the more widely existing pronominal remnants of partitive genitive forms (see Strobel 2017), there is in general much less information concerning the expression of partitivity within the noun phrase (see Glaser 1992, 1993; Grestenberger 2015)","PeriodicalId":265530,"journal":{"name":"Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128302810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Partitive Articles” in Aosta Valley Francoprovençal—Old Questions and New Data","authors":"E. Stark, D. Gerards","doi":"10.1163/9789004437500_010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004437500_010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":265530,"journal":{"name":"Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127798615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negation, des-Indefinites in French and Bare Nouns across Languages","authors":"Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin","doi":"10.1163/9789004437500_007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004437500_007","url":null,"abstract":"ine McKinney-Bock, Erika Varis, Ann Sawyer and Barbara Tomaszewicz. 160–168. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Pearson, Hazel. 2013. “A judge-free semantics for predicates of personal taste.” Journal of Semantics 30: 103–154. Piñón, Christopher. 2016. More generous behavior. Invited talk given to WAASAP 3, Lille, June 2016. Pustejovsky, James. 1995. The generative lexicon. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Ramchand, Gillian. 2018. “Alternating adjectives.” The Linguistic Review 35, no. 2: 283– 306. Reed, Lisa. 1997. “Pronominalized Aspect.” Studia Linguistica 51, no. 2: 121–153. Rodrigues, Patricia, and Maria José Foltran. 2015. “Small nominals in Brazilian Portuguese copular constructions.” Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 14, no. 1: 129–147. Roy, Isabelle, and Ur Shlonsky. 2019. “Aspects of the syntax of ce in French copular sentences.” In The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages, edited by María Arche, Antonio Fábregas, and Rafael Marín. 153–169. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Schurr, Hagay. This volume. “Bound To Be? Bare and Partitive-Marked Noun Phrases in Romance Languages and the Emergence of Prominence-Conditioned Patterns.” Smith, Peter. 2015. “Feature mismatches: consequences for syntax, morphology and semantics.” PhD Diss., University of Connecticut. Stark, Elisabeth, and David Paul Gerards. This volume. “ ‘Partitive Articles’ in Aosta Valley Francoprovençal—Old Questions and New Data.” Stephenson, Tamina. 2007. “Judge dependence, epistemic modals, and predicates of personal taste.”Linguistics and Philosophy 30, no. 4: 487–525. Strobel, Thomas, and Elvira Glaser. This volume. “The Rise and Fall of PartitiveMarkers in Some Germanic varieties.” Wechsler, Stephen. 2013. “The structure of Swedish pancakes.” In The Core and the Periphery:Data-DrivenPerspectives onSyntax Inspiredby IvanA. Sag, editedbyPhilip Hofmeister and Elizabeth Norcliffe. 71–98. Stanford: CSLI Publications. Wechsler, Stephen, and Larisa Zlatić. 2000. “A theory of agreement and its application to Serbo-croatian.”Language 76, no. 4: 799–832.","PeriodicalId":265530,"journal":{"name":"Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124488064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Telicity, Specificity, and Complements with a “Partitive Article” in French","authors":"Tabea Ihsane","doi":"10.1163/9789004437500_008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004437500_008","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we analyze sentences with a des-complement, that is, a complement introduced by a so-called “partitive article” in the plural, and focus on the impact of this complement on the (a)telicity of the eventuality. Although des-complements generally occur in atelic sentences, we discuss some telic situations in which they are possible. To explain the acceptability of such sentences, we examine various semantic properties of these complements which could play a role in the telic interpretation, such as the presence/absence of an implicit quantity expression in the complement, their type of reference (quantized vs. cumulative; individuated) and specificity. We propose that the des-complements found in telic situations involve a quantity that is known and that this “knowledge” can be formalized in terms of epistemic specificity, as defined in Von Heusinger (2002a, 2002b and subsequent developments).","PeriodicalId":265530,"journal":{"name":"Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article","volume":"149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127268055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bound To Be? Bare and Partitive-Marked Noun Phrases in Romance Languages and the Emergence of Prominence-Conditioned Patterns","authors":"Hagay Schurr","doi":"10.1163/9789004437500_004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004437500_004","url":null,"abstract":"denotation (Shift 4) figure 3.1 Grammaticalization of the “partitive article” in French Stages 1 and 2: The Latin ablative preposition de extends from spatial source marking to marking other source-like adjuncts (e.g., lineage, temporal meanings). Then, it is extended to denoting genuine partition of a contextually defined partition set. This process starts with objects of consumption verbs (‘drink’, ‘eat’) with which de extends from adjunct-marking to marking of argument. This state is inherited toOldRomance, includingOld Italian (4a) andOld French (5). (5) Old French Dunc so but drink.pst.3sg del of.the vini wine qui rel.sbj l’i=ad 3sg.acc=have.prs.3sg el the champ field trové find.ptcp ‘So he who found the wine in the field drank from it.’ (Guill1, 25, v. 524, 12th century, ms. 13th century Cédille, 2016; henceforth bfm) Stage 3: Once de-based morphemes extend to marking arguments, the pa extends beyond the class of consumption verbs at the expense of previously accepted bare noun contexts, e.g., in marking indefinite groups of individuals (aggregate plurals) (see example 2a). Stage 4: pas obligatorily mark substance-, kind-denoting nouns before abstract nouns in 16th century Middle French. Earlier variation in marking abstractdenoting nouns is observed in the 15th century. In line with this grammaticalization process, while genuine partitive phrases are specificity-restricted in that their partitioned whole must be specific, fullfledged pa marks non-specific plural indefinites before its extension to nonspecific, non-countable and abstract nouns.10 10 For a discussion of pamarked specific plural indefinites in French, see Ihsane, this volume. Hagay Schurr 9789004437500 Downloaded from Brill.com10/29/2020 06:05:27AM via free access","PeriodicalId":265530,"journal":{"name":"Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128410694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}