This article argues that the Italian plural indefinite article dei and its French counterpart is a partitive structure without an overt numeral. Unlike a similar proposal in (Chierchia 1998a), the present account crucially holds that the definite DP embedded in these ‘defective partitives’ is a kind-denoting DP. This assumption derives the lack of existence presupposition, the absence of cardin...

.Abstract-Motion induction was investigated as a function of depth adjacency and attention. Slox-ing induction objects producing opposing induction effects in a test object were presented simultaneously at different distances in the visual field with the apparent distance of the test object varied relative to the induction objects. In agreement with the adjacency principle. it was found that se...

In three experiments we tested the predictions of two models of determiner selection in the production of Dutch noun phrases (NPs). In Experiment 1, participants named pictures using plural and unmarked determiner + noun NPs. In Experiment 2, participants named pictures using diminutive and unmarked determiner + noun NPs. In both experiments, we found that production latencies for plural and di...

This paper is concerned with the semantics of so-called plurals extension, a class lexical such as mountains, cliffs, skies, Hebrides, and Pyrenees. While similar on surface to regular plural nouns, they behave differently in certain regards, including their compatibility determiners, interpretation half N partitives possibility occur weak definites. We will argue that extension denote predicat...

Previous evidence suggests clitics and determiners do not enter the same type of gender agreement relations in contact varieties Spanish, despite proposals that treat as (big DP – Determiner Phrase hypothesis) (Uriagereka 1995; Cecchetto 1999, 2000; Belletti 2005). We conducted a study on between their antecedents, nouns among adult Shipibo-Spanish bilinguals to answer following question: Do Sh...

The P System antigens have been detected in numerous parasites, bacteria and viruses, nevertheless the clinical significance is still unknown. The aim was to study the presence of P1 antigenic determiners in A. lumbricoides extracts by means of the use of 6 different monoclonal antibodies of well-known concentrations and Ig class. We worked with 14 A. lumbricoides extracts. Inhibition Agglutina...

A striking cross-linguistic generalisation about the semantics of determiners is that they never express nonconservative relations. To account for this one might hypothesise that the mechanisms underlying human language acquisition are not compatible with nonconservative determiner meanings. We stress that the crosslinguistic generalisation alone should not be taken as decisive evidence for thi...