Structural heterogeneity of pseudo-partitives in Spanish
Keywords:
pseudopartitives / pseudo-partitives, tertiary term, quantifiers, agreement.
Abstract
The classic difference between partitive and pseudo-partitive constructions (Selkirk 1977) is fully stablished in today’s linguistics. In the literature, however, they do not notice that the group of pseudo-partitives ―as it has been described in grammatical studies of Spanish― is heterogeneous from a structural point of view. The aim of this paper is to show that two radically different syntactic schemes underlie the label of pseudo-partitives. This systematic lack of differentiation is because of the fact that both structures have the same distribution of semantic-pragmatic components: a quantifier and a quantified (in that order) plus the preposition de in between (‘quantifier + de + quantified’).Downloads
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San Julián Solana J. (2018). Structural heterogeneity of pseudo-partitives in Spanish. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 75, 261-286. https://doi.org/10.5209/CLAC.61357
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