Partitivity in Italian

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: Partitive elements in the languages of Europe 1
5. Part I: Setting the diagnostics for partitivity in Romance languages
6. Partitivity in Italian 33
7. Du/des-NPs in French 77
8. Part II: The diachrony of partitivity
9. Diachronic typology of partitives 111
10. The partitive article in Old Italian 169
11. Part III: The acquisition of partitivity
12. The L2 acquisition of the partitive pronoun en in French by L1 speakers of German and the role of the L1 205
13. The L2 acquisition of the referential semantics of Dutch partitive pronoun ER constructions 237
14. Part IV: The syntax-semantics correlations of case in partitivity
15. Turkish partitive constructions and (non-)exhaustivity 263
16. Longitudinal or transverse? 295
17. The partitive marker in Basque, and its relation to bare nouns and the definite article 319
18. Index 357