What’s hidden below definiteness and genitive: on indefinite partitive articles in Romance
In French, Italian, and other Romance languages indefinite nominal phrases can be introduced by what appears to be the conflation of a genitive preposition and a definite article, the so-called “indefinite partitive articles” (e.g., Fr. Je cuisine de la soupe depuis deux jours. ‘I’ve been cooking so...
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De Gruyter
2024-09-01
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2022-0059 |