The Role of Agreement in Natural Language
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چکیده
The two partitive constructions in (1) and (2) feature a definite determiner which does not force a presuppositional interpretation for the DP after de. That is, du pain and des crayons do not need to refer to a known amount of bread or to a known set of pencils. On the basis of this observation, the definite determiner appearing in (1) and (2) can be labeled as expletive. (Milner 1978), as well as (Jones 1996), relate the determiner appearing in the contexts in (1)-(2) to the one occurring in generic contexts, in French, as for instance in (4):
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