En Preceding Direct Objects in Galician
In Galician direct objects of eventive verbs can be introduced by the preposition en. Presence of en signals semantic differences related to aspect and specificity: definite objects preceded by en pattern like bare NPs -and not like the corresponding definite objects without en- in that they require...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1999 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:2207 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/2207 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Aspect Specificity Artitivity Aspecte Especificitat Partitivitat |
| Sumario: | In Galician direct objects of eventive verbs can be introduced by the preposition en. Presence of en signals semantic differences related to aspect and specificity: definite objects preceded by en pattern like bare NPs -and not like the corresponding definite objects without en- in that they required an atelic sentential aspect and are non-specific. Properties of en + DO resemble to some extent those of the partitive article -i.e. French: du, de la, des-, especially at its origin. In this paper I explore the possibility of assigning a similar analysis to both en + DO and partitive article based on Kayne (1994)'s DP hypothesis, according to which D selects a D/PP projection which dominates a predication and one of the components of that predication raises to Spec D/PP. I propose that the head of this D/PP is en or de, and the element that raises to Spec D/PP is a nul quantifier which is generated as the predicate. |
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