Disentangling bare nouns and nominals introduced by a partitive article /

"This volume edited by Tabea Ihsane focuses on different aspects of the distribution, semantics, and internal structure of nominal constituents with a "partitive article" in its indefinite interpretation and of potentially corresponding bare nouns. It further deals with diachronic iss...

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Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Ihsane, Tabea (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.
Series:Syntax & semantics, 43
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"This volume edited by Tabea Ihsane focuses on different aspects of the distribution, semantics, and internal structure of nominal constituents with a "partitive article" in its indefinite interpretation and of 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 to bare nouns, in a cross-linguistic perspective and on new data: the research covers noteworthy data (fieldwork data and corpora) from Standard languages--like French and Italian, but also German--to dialectal and regional varieties, including endangered ones like Francoprovençal"--
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004437500
9004437509
ISSN:0092-4563 ;