Indefinite determiners in two northern Italian dialects
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چکیده
Italian and dialects express indefiniteness in different ways, among which with a null determiner (ZERO) like all other Romance languages, but also the definite article (ART) unlike what is found Romance. some northern display so-called “partitive determiner” DI+ART, present French. Few northwestern (bare) DI, parallel to We adopt Cardinaletti Giusti’s (2015, 2016) unified analysis build on (2018, 2020) hypothesis that variation optionality distribution of four determiners regional mirror their along two isoglosses: ART isogloss spreading from center Italy towards north-west south-east; DI Piedmont eastwards. conduct quantitative results questionnaire Piacentino Rodigino. test mass count nouns dimensions: sentence type (positive vs. negative) predicate (telic atelic). The confirm complexity related its highlighting hierarchies contexts: NEG < POS ATEL TEL. It confirms Piacentino, located at crossroads isoglosses, has more than Rodigino, borders.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Isogloss
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2385-4138']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.122