- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Functional Heads: State of the Art and Further Developments
- From Modal Particle to Interrogative Marker: A Study of German <i>denn</i>
- Lexical Complementizers and Headless Relatives
- The Theory of Syntax and the Representation of Indexicality
- <i>Wh</i>-Movement as Topic Movement*
- Subject Positions, Point of View and the Neuter Pronoun <i>tet</i> in West Flemish
- Number within the DP: A View from Oceanic
- Mirative and Focusing Uses of the Catalan Particle <i>pla</i> *
- On the Nature of the V2 System of Medieval Romance
- A Note on the Spanish Left Periphery
- Moving Verbal Chunks in the Low Functional Field
- Articles as Partitives*
- Toward an Analysis of French Hyper-Complex Inversion*
- Samoan Ergativity as Double Passivization*
- Revisiting “Suspended Affixation” and Other Coordinate Mysteries*
- Backward Binding and the C-T Phase: A Case of Syntactic Haplology*
- On the Feature Composition of Participial Light Verbs in French*
- A Note on Dative Incompatibility Suppression
- Hallmarks of Portuguese Syntax
- Notes on <i>Wh</i> In Situ in French*
- Re <i>Re</i> Again
- The Structural Object Position of Verbs and Nouns
- On the Double Definiteness Marker, Aspect, and Word Order in Old and Modern Scandinavian
- The Order of Verbal Affixes and Functional Structure in Imbabura Quichua*
- Number As a Feature*
- Which Is the Extended Projection Above N?1
- On the Lexical/Functional Divide: The Case of Negation*
- Diachrony and Cartography: Paths of Grammaticalization and the Clausal Hierarchy<sup>1</sup>
- Silent Heads
- Postnominal Adjectives in Greek Indefinite Noun Phrases<sup>1</sup>
- Afterword
- Index
Articles as Partitives *
Articles as Partitives *
- Chapter:
- (p.138) Articles as Partitives*
- Source:
- Functional Heads
- Author(s):
Ignacio Bosque
M. Carme Picallo
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter attempts to formally account for a peculiar partitive construction of Old Romance languages that has never been discussed in generative literature. It provides evidence that the definite article that in this construction precedes the cardinal numeral should be interpreted and treated as a pronoun. Therefore, adopting a Big DP configuration for the article-pronoun and the DP complement of the partitive preposition, it suggests that the article-pronoun raises from the Spec of the Big DP to a higher position where its formal person and number (and perhaps case) features can be checked and valued, and finally morpho-phonologically incorporate to the above cardinal head.
Keywords: partitive construction, Old Romance languages, definite article, DP, pronoun
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Functional Heads: State of the Art and Further Developments
- From Modal Particle to Interrogative Marker: A Study of German <i>denn</i>
- Lexical Complementizers and Headless Relatives
- The Theory of Syntax and the Representation of Indexicality
- <i>Wh</i>-Movement as Topic Movement*
- Subject Positions, Point of View and the Neuter Pronoun <i>tet</i> in West Flemish
- Number within the DP: A View from Oceanic
- Mirative and Focusing Uses of the Catalan Particle <i>pla</i> *
- On the Nature of the V2 System of Medieval Romance
- A Note on the Spanish Left Periphery
- Moving Verbal Chunks in the Low Functional Field
- Articles as Partitives*
- Toward an Analysis of French Hyper-Complex Inversion*
- Samoan Ergativity as Double Passivization*
- Revisiting “Suspended Affixation” and Other Coordinate Mysteries*
- Backward Binding and the C-T Phase: A Case of Syntactic Haplology*
- On the Feature Composition of Participial Light Verbs in French*
- A Note on Dative Incompatibility Suppression
- Hallmarks of Portuguese Syntax
- Notes on <i>Wh</i> In Situ in French*
- Re <i>Re</i> Again
- The Structural Object Position of Verbs and Nouns
- On the Double Definiteness Marker, Aspect, and Word Order in Old and Modern Scandinavian
- The Order of Verbal Affixes and Functional Structure in Imbabura Quichua*
- Number As a Feature*
- Which Is the Extended Projection Above N?1
- On the Lexical/Functional Divide: The Case of Negation*
- Diachrony and Cartography: Paths of Grammaticalization and the Clausal Hierarchy<sup>1</sup>
- Silent Heads
- Postnominal Adjectives in Greek Indefinite Noun Phrases<sup>1</sup>
- Afterword
- Index
