This contribution examines the relation between genitives/partitives and indefinites in some
Italian varieties. A central question concerns the nature of the preposition de/di (DE)'of'(< …

The expression of indefiniteness presents a wide degree of variation across languages.
Inadditiontoindefinitequantifierssuchasalcuni 'some'orpseudopartitive constructions such as …

This introductory paper provides an overview of the main phenomena investigated in this
Special Issue, such as the relation between the encoding of indefinites and the presence of …

Italian and Italian dialects express indefiniteness in different ways, among which with a null
determiner (ZERO) like all other Romance languages, but also with the definite article (ART) …

Two different constructions of Old Italian have been connected to the Modern Italian partitive
article: the construction formed by the preposition di followed by a noun without a definite …

Theaimof thispaperistopresentanddiscussfieldworkda…-day Francoprovençal varieties
spoken in the Aosta Valley (Italy), gathered in May 2017 in order to complement our …

This paper is situated on the join of two particularly fertile grounds of discussions in formal
semantics. The first is the distinction between bare nominals and indefinite DPs (Chierchia …

Traditional grammars of French or Italian treat NPs of this type as more or less ordinary
indefinite NPs: the noun is preceded by an indefinite determiner-the partitive determiner-and …

This paper provides a syntactic analysis of the indefinite plural determiner dei in Italian, also
called 'partitive article', as in Ho visto dei ragazzi (I saw de. art boys). It argues that dei is …

This paper presents the results of a pilot study on the distribution of indefinite determiners in
contexts with narrow scope interpretation in current informal Italian. It individuates the …