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Il nome nel testo, col pretesto di Lessico Famigliare di Natalia Ginzburg
2018
Natalia Ginzburg’s Lessico famigliare contains a remarkable number of proper nouns. In the course of the novel, the «general meaning» of the proper noun plays an important functional role. This paper will show how one particular feature of the syntax of proper nouns – their combination with the definite article – has a precise textual value.
The article a(n) in English quantifying expressions: A default marker of cardinality
2020
Certain English quantificational expressions feature what appears to be an indefinite article, e.g. 'a bunch, a few, a hundred'. These can be divided into three types of quantifying expressions: pseudopartitives ('a lot, a bunch, a ton'), article-requiring quantifiers ('a few, a couple, a hundred'), and article-free quantifiers ('three, many, several'); article-free quantifiers have an article under certain circumstances, e.g. modification by an adjective ('a surprising 30 …'). While standard analyses would take the article in these expressions to be a D head, it is argued here that the article is not in D, nor is it singular or count, as evidenced by its (lack of an) interaction with verba…