Francoprovençal : a spatial analysis of ‘partitive articles’ and potential correlates in Swiss and Italian varieties

Article Article scientifique Article Francoprovençal : a spatial analysis of ‘partitive articles’ and potential correlates in Swiss and Italian varieties eng 2023-03-23 author Ihsane Tabea 0000-0002-6261-1283 88014 Département de langue et littérature anglaises (ANGL1) author Winistörfer Olivier 0000-0002-9956-4396 author Stark Elisabeth 935258 1-30 10.5565/rev/isogloss.257 2385-4138 https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v0-n1-ihsane-winistoerfer-stark <p>In this paper, we focus on partitive articles (PAs), i.e., determiners which, generally, have an indefinite interpretation, and on one of their potential correlates, i.e., invariable de, in Francoprovençal, a non-standardized, highly endangered Gallo-Romance language (cf. Zulato, Kasstan & Nagy 2018), and show the fine-grained spatial distribution of these elements in the Swiss and Aosta Valley (Italy) varieties. Presenting several maps based on fieldwork data from Valais (Switzerland) and the Aosta Valley (Italy), we demonstrate that the spatial distribution of PAs and de is more complex than reported in the literature: we complement the basic subdivision of Francoprovençal into two types, Francoprovençal A and B (cf. Kristol 2014, 2016), with a more nuanced picture, in which the morphosyntactic features of PAs play a crucial role: in Francoprovençal A, the presence of PAs depends on the syntactic context whereas, in Francoprovençal B, their presence is limited mainly to two areas, in which singular and plural PAs do not occur together (one area only has singular PAs whereas the other one only has plural PAs). We also show that there is no correlation between phonologically overt plural marking on nouns and absence of PAs; however, we found a correlation between overt sigmatic number marking on nouns and absence of PAs.</p> Francoprovençal Partitive article Spatial distribution Overt number marking on nouns Quantifier Negation Dewey 410 Dewey 420/820 Swiss National Science Foundation Distribution and function of ‘partitive articles’ in Romance (DiFuPaRo): a microvariation analysis 172751 CH Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) PO1642/8-1 84 Département de langue et de littérature anglaises 3B 82 Département de linguistique 39 false Isogloss 9 1 d4fef3f2-5878-4531-85c2-52a0befedcda Article (Published version) Public Ihsane_Winistoerfer_Stark_2023.pdf 689403 application/pdf CC BY-4.0 a081ae6a45c46c0814aca811987ad4bb5eed3c2d804274471029857b1f94a246 openAccess Faculté des lettres / Département de langue et de littérature anglaises Faculté des lettres / Département de linguistique

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