De in Catalan Elliptical Nominals : a Partitive Case Marker
In Catalan an AP internal to an indefinite nominal phrase with an elliptical noun is obligatorily preceded by the prepositional element de: i.e. un de petit (lit. a of small,'a small one'). The occurrence of de in elliptical indefinite nominals in Catalan, taken together with its parallel...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1995 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:21189 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/21189 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Nominal ellipsis Partitive Case "De" preposition Quantifier phrase Case phrase El·lipsi nominal Cas partitiu Preposició "de" Sintagma quantificador Sintagma de Cas |
| Sumario: | In Catalan an AP internal to an indefinite nominal phrase with an elliptical noun is obligatorily preceded by the prepositional element de: i.e. un de petit (lit. a of small,'a small one'). The occurrence of de in elliptical indefinite nominals in Catalan, taken together with its parallel occurrence in dislocated indefinite nominals and with en pronominalization, sheds light on the structure of indefinite nominals. We propose that they are QPs (Quantifier Phrases), where Q selects a Case functional projection (KP) and assigns it partitive Case (cf. Giusti (1992)), and take de to be the head of KP. The clitic en and the element de in dislocated constituents are other morphological manifestations of the partitive Case assigned to KP. |
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