Abstract
AbstractThis paper focuses on the status ofdein Romance indefinites, partitives and pseudopartitives. It argues that there is neither a ‘partitive article’ nor a ‘partitive preposition’ in syntax.Dein Romance indefinites is the overt Spell‐Out of an abstract operatordethat cancels the definiteness of articles and is responsible for indefiniteness.Dein Romance partitives is the overt Spell‐Out of arelatorhead that takes a definite DP as complement and a QP in the specifier position. Finally, pseudopartitivity is shown to have crosslinguistic parallels with indefinites, and it is derived by postulating a mono‐projectional analysis in which a semilexical N selects for ade‐phrase, in exactly the same way that quantifiers and cardinals select for indefinitede‐phrases.
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