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A syntactically-driven approach to indefiniteness, specificity and anti-specificity in Romance

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M. TERESA ESPINAL Open the ORCID record for M. TERESA ESPINAL [Opens in a new window]  and
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M. TERESA ESPINAL
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Departament de Filologia Catalana/Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193-Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain [email protected]
SONIA CYRINO
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Deparmento de Lingüística, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, Rua Sérgio Buarque de Holanda 571, Universidade Estadual de Campinas – University of Campinas, Campinas, SP – 13083-859, Brazil [email protected]
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Abstract

In this paper we present an original approach to analyze the compositionality of indefinite expressions in Romance by investigating the relevance of their syntactic distribution in relation to their meaning. This approach has the advantage of allowing us to explore the question of how syntactic structure can determine the meaning of different forms of indefiniteness. To that end, we postulate a common derivation for bare plurals, bare mass and de phrases, whereby an abstract operator de is adjoined to definite determiners and shifts entities into property-type expressions. Quantificational specificity is proposed to be derived from a syntactic structure in which weak quantifiers select for indefinite de-phrases, no matter whether de is overt at Spell-Out or not; these quantifiers turn properties into generalized quantifiers. The anti-specificity meaning of some indefinites is derived by adjoining in the syntactic structure an abstract operator alg that encodes the speaker’s epistemic state of ignorance to a quantifier encoded for specificity, and it turns a generalized quantifier into a modified generalized quantifier. The paper also brings some general predictions on how indefiniteness is expressed in Romance, as it provides extensive support from five Romance languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian and Spanish.

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anti-specificityBrazilian PortugueseCatalanFrenchindefinitenessItalianSpanishspecificity
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 58 , Issue 3 , August 2022 , pp. 535 - 570
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We acknowledge the financial support from Spanish Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, grants FFI2017-82547-P and PID2020-112801GB-100, Generalitat de Catalunya, grant 2017SGR634, and ICREA Academia 2015 for the first author, and from The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Grant 304.574/2017-1 for the second author. Parts of this paper were presented at Romania Nova (New York, 2019), Around Partitive Articles Workshop (Frankfurt, 2019), LSRL50 (Austin, TX, 2020), CamCoS9 (Newcastle, 2020), Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (Siena, 2021), and 30 Colloquium Generative Grammar (Bellaterra, 2021). We thank the audience of these conferences for their suggestions and comments, and special thanks to Claire Beyssade, Alessandro Bigolin, Silvio Cruschina, Viviane Déprez, Claudine Fréchet, Montserrat Llobet, Paolo Morosi, Norma Schifano, Federico Silvagni for their intuitions on the data. We also thank three anonymous referees of Journal of Linguistics, whose comments greatly helped us to improve this paper. The remaining errors are our responsibility.

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